Henry Rollins Quotes
I just want to be able to stand up straight for a little while before I get cut down.
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I still study dance, and it's definitely something I want to incorporate in the future. It's always been my first love.
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I think women are really self-analytical in a way that men aren't.
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We have to reappropriate the concept of laicite (secularism) so we can explain to our young pupils that whatever their faith, they belong to this idea, and they're not excluded. Secularism is not something against them; it protects them.
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When you work with somebody for a long period of time, you develop a shorthand with everything.
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I believe how you measure a good movie is how many times you can see it. With comedies, I like to be a producer, because comedies can get corny and go off track real fast. I'm always the 'less is more' guy when it comes to a scene. So I'ma be the one who will keep it grounded.
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I love Nelly. He's such a great performer. He's so hyper and so am I.
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To try to fix the future is a manifest absurdity.
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The Ferrari is a beautiful car. It's great.
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My uncle was the first brown person to have a market stall on Petticoat Lane in the 1960s. He worked his way up from the street. He was homeless, but eventually he got a car so he could sell from the boot. And by the 1980s, he was a millionaire wholesaling to companies like Topshop. So in a way, fashion put me in England.
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I'm not a good guitar player.
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My defensiveness in life really helps me as a driver.
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I really enjoy doing films, but I also love television. I certainly would not be against doing some regular television work and being on a show that runs several years.
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I didn't think then, and I still don't, that I was actually sick.
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Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since.
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The Chinese are really good at diplomacy - and even at making their interlocutors feel very uncomfortable.
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Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.
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Some smart man once said that on the most exalted throne in the world, we are seated on nothing but our own arse.
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Jon Jones, grow up, bud. We're going to fight regardless of how you feel. And when we do, and I'm cutting the line, and you might as well pull the guard because I'm taking you down.
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People want to see something that isn't necessarily somebody walking around in a superhero costume.
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I like other people's kids and being able to give them back when I want to.
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I'm not a T.G.I.F. guy. I get off a plane at 2 o'clock in the morning and I'm looking for my secretary because I want to know what's going on.
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I do think that Americans are poorly served by their media, at times extremely poorly served by their elected officials who are non responsive to majority feelings and cut off to a certain degree from the affairs of the world.
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Nature, it appears, has been rather more bountiful to Paul's body and purse than to his intellect; above the ears, speaking bluntly, the boy is strictly tapioca.
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I just want to be able to stand up straight for a little while before I get cut down.
