Henry Rollins Quotes

I simply cannot understand how any parent could kill themselves.

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• I couldn't love a woman who inspired me to be totally disinterested. If I fell in love with a woman for an artistic reason, or from the point of view of my work, I think it would rob her of something.

  

  Yves Saint Laurent
  • Work
  • Love
  • Woman

• In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Bad
  • Guy
  • Black

• All reactionaries are paper tigers.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Paper
  • Tigers

• When they are assailed by despair, young people should let universal concerns into their lives.

  

  Abbe Pierre
  • People
  • Young
  • Young People

• You know, we don't have any decorative sprigs of rosemary; we're not placing little matchstick radishes onto an hors d'oeuvre... The food's gotta taste good. The concept's gotta taste good.

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • Good
  • Food
  • Know

• I don't normally vote. I'm lazy and I never bought into the 'Every vote counts.'

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Never
  • Lazy
  • Vote

• I had never done a roast, but I really wanted to, because it's so different from standup.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Different
  • Done
  • Never

• In Iraq, many of my female friends were architects and professionals with a lot of power during the 1980s while all the men were at war in Iran.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Men
  • Power
  • Friends

• If your budget is in good shape and you are not indebted too much, you can do what the U.S. did at the beginning of the '30s - building railways, etc., but when you don't have that, you must be far more cautious.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Good
  • Beginning
  • Building

• I love fashion, and that's how I express myself.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Love
  • Fashion
  • Express Myself

• The real problem is deflation. That is the opposite of inflation but equally serious to the borrower.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Real
  • Problem
  • Serious

• 'Hard Times' does not romanticize the Depression, but at least a few of Mr. Terkel's subjects managed to find silver linings.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Find
  • Depression
  • Silver

• Polonium is, frankly, pretty useless, and no country in the world except Russia bothered to refine it by the late 2000s.

  

  Sam Kean
  • World
  • Country
  • Pretty

• What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • Strength
  • Page
  • Call

• When I was teenager, Britney Spears was it - that was the pop world that was happening, and I knew I wasn't in it.

  

  Valerie June
  • World
  • Teenager
  • Happening

• Before we had the kids, my husband and I were traveling a lot and working and really enjoying our lives and each other. We both love the theater and books and travel and so we were really having a lot of fun.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Kids
  • Fun
  • Travel

• This medal goes to show that you don't always have to have the best facilities, the best organisation, the best of everything to achieve.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Best
  • Always
  • Achieve

• I'm by nature someone that quite likes to understand how things are working, likes some sense of structure, and I've fallen into the worst possible trade for that.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Nature
  • Understand
  • Possible

• I listen to a lot of different kind of music. A lot of weird-ass music, like weird-ass, old Portishead.

  

  Mac Miller
  • Music
  • Different
  • Weird

• I want to show that there are indeed some universal ethical principles which could help everyone to achieve the happiness we all aspire to.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Help

• It turns out there's only one thing that capuchins really, really love - and that's sweet stuff. If you give them a big vat of say, marshmallow fluff, and you let them go at it, what they'll do is eat their body weight in marshmallow fluff, walk away, they'll vomit, and they'll come back and eat their body weight again. And they'll vomit. And they'll do that for as long as there is marshmallow fluff out there. They love marshmallow fluff.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Long
  • Giving
  • Sweet

• As a college student, I worked as a mentor, and that got me involved in working with young people long before I became a foster parent.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • People
  • Long
  • College

• My parents were skeptical about me becoming a footballer and encouraged me to study.

  

  Carles Puyol
  • Study
  • Parent
  • Becoming

• I simply cannot understand how any parent could kill themselves.

  

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