Henry Rollins Quotes

I like people. Rightwingers don't. They like business, they don't care about people. I like education, they seem not to care much about it.

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• After high school, I went to the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point for a year, and I studied musical theatre. By that point, I was like, 'This is what I want to do.'

  

  Laura Osnes
  • School
  • High
  • Theatre

• We've made some good beginnings with the New START Treaty, but a lot more can be done.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Good
  • Done
  • Start

• I've certainly not got any famous people's numbers on my phone. It's just not my thing, really.

  

  Gareth Bale
  • People
  • Famous
  • Numbers

• In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Government
  • Justice
  • Absence

• Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • Know
  • Politics
  • Act

• Our concept of governing is derived from our view of people. It is a concept deeply rooted in a set of beliefs firmly etched in the national conscience, of all of us.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • People
  • View
  • Beliefs

• I live in Hollywood, California. It's absolutely nothing like Absaroka County, Wyoming. For me, it's a great escape and I really enjoy it.

  

  Bailey Chase
  • Great
  • Me
  • Enjoy

• As for sex, well, I mean sex is a perfectly respectable subject as far as Shakespeare is concerned. I mean, all history is love and violence.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • Love
  • History
  • Violence

• I fear that the rising personal bankruptcies and repossessions are the first signs of bigger problems to come and personal debt - Gordon Brown's legacy to millions of Britain's families - will hang like a millstone around the neck of the British people for years to come.

  

  Vince Cable
  • People
  • Fear
  • Problems

• What sort of person you grow into should not be achieved by default, and often that's exactly what happens to kids. I see literature as a method of guidance, information, and contemplation, and consider it the greatest compliment possible when a reader tells me that a book of mine really made him/her think.

  

  Wendelin Van Draanen
  • Book
  • Kids
  • Literature

• Not a day has gone by in my life when I haven't thought about death.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Life
  • Death
  • Day

• If I've been indulging in rich foods, a cleanse is a wonderful way to hit the reset button.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Way
  • Rich
  • Button

• They never ask the celebrities why they don't wear their own clothes on the red carpet.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Why
  • Never
  • Red

• I was aware of a lot of my friends being into things I wasn't into. Like sarcasm. It had never been a part of my family - they still don't use sarcasm.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Sarcasm

• I have no knowledge of myself as I am, but merely as I appear to myself.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Knowledge

• Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).

  

  Ayn Rand
  • Political
  • Earth

• I didn't start writing my own books until I was 40.

  

  Claire Tomalin
  • Writing

• In pageants, you are evaluated from head to toe and it's obviously all about looks, and as vain as that is, they can also bring you lots of opportunities to do amazing things.

  

  Katherine Webb
  • Amazing

• So often, generalizations don't apply to Catholic voters. Catholics are concerned about the war, the economy, about issues like abortion, issues pertaining to the budget and funding Medicaid and Medicare and what happens to the environment.

  

  Bob Casey, Jr.
  • War
  • Environment
  • Catholic

• I don't think it's good for people to know too much about you. With my favourite bands, I don't want to have the inside track on every single aspect of their personal lives.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • People
  • Good
  • Think

• A change fell upon all things. Strange brilliant flowers, star-shaped, burst out upon the trees where no flowers had been before. The tints of the green carpet deepened; and when, one by one, the white daisies shrank away, there sprang up, in place of them, ten by ten of the ruby-red asphodel. And life arose in our paths; for the tall flamingo hitherto unseen, with all gay glowing birds, flaunted his scarlet plumage before us. The golden and silver fish haunted the river.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Change
  • Things
  • Flowers

• Then I’ll have to succeed three times as hard as they want me to fail. You, of all people, should understand that.

  

  Courtney Milan
  • Want
  • Hard
  • Succeed

• I like people. Rightwingers don't. They like business, they don't care about people. I like education, they seem not to care much about it.

  

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  • People
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