Henry Rollins Quotes

When I am in Africa, I always have the feeling that it's where everything started. When I am in New York, I know it is where everything ended up.

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• While hereditary chiefs inhabit the apex of our traditional social systems, it would be a mistake to think they hold all the power. They aren't kings. They aren't dictators. They're answerable to their clans and their matriarchs. All decisions that affect our communities require lengthy, deliberate discussions and careful negotiation.

  

  Eden Robinson
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• What we do for a living does not matter so much as how we do it. It is the spirit in which we do our work that counts, and that counts through all eternity.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Work
  • Spirit
  • Matter

• I write seven days a week, starting at 4 o'clock in the morning, including Christmas.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Morning
  • Christmas
  • Week

• Sometimes your parents are the ones with the biggest mouths of all time.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Time
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• I have dedicated many years to economic study, up to the Ph.D. level, to analyze and understand the inherent weaknesses of aid and why aid policies have consistently failed to deliver on economic growth and poverty alleviation.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • Up
  • Why
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• The stuff that's going on is just so over-the-top, with the banking crisis and destroying the Gulf of Mexico, and the outrage hasn't quite caught up with the people yet. But when it does, I think you're going to see really virulent anti-authoritarian kind of comedy coming out.

  

  Adam McKay
  • People
  • Up
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• People say, 'Wow, you've achieved it all this year: two world championship wins and an Olympic gold medal.' And I think, 'Yeah, but how come I feel so unsatisfied and under pressure all over again?'

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • People
  • World
  • Gold

• My childhood was colorfully anarchic and punctuated by a lot of change.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Change
  • Childhood
  • Lot

• How emigration is actually lived - well, this depends on many factors: education, economic station, language, where one lands, and what support network is in place at the site of arrival.

  

  Daniel Alarcon
  • Education
  • Support
  • Language

• Playing tough characters just comes easy for me. It's not who I am in real life, so I love going to work and pretending to be something I'm not. I love all the action and confidence. But when I finally go do a rom-com, I hope my fans will support me.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Life
  • Work
  • Hope

• I appreciate the 'Surreal Life.' I had a really positive experience on that show, and with those people. I found some love in my heart for religion again, and had the support of a new family of friends. I wouldn't have had the pleasure of meeting those people, if we were not all placed in that fishbowl.

  

  Vince Neil Mötley Crüe
  • People
  • Life
  • Family

• I pray for discretion every single night, that I can see through people, see what their greater good is. Sometimes that individual 'wows' you by the eye, but when it come to heart to heart, that person's not there for you. That's not just females. That may be friends, people who come into your life just to use you for who you are.

  

  Cam Newton
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• We believe in freedom, freedom for the people of each country to follow their destiny without external interference.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • People
  • Believe
  • Country

• Remember our proud history of social justice, universal health care, public pensions and making sure no one is left behind. Let's continue to move forward.

  

  Jack Layton
  • Remember
  • History
  • Health

• I'm a writer, not a genre.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Writer
  • Genre

• Islam is perfect, there is nothing to be added or changed.

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • Perfect
  • Nothing
  • Islam

• I love making lists.

  

  J. Courtney Sullivan
  • Love
  • Making
  • Lists

• He who is without a newspaper is cut off from his species.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Without
  • Newspaper
  • Cut

• It got me more recognition from the record labels and more independent artists started to reach out and tried to look to me for guidance to help them out.

  

  Dallas Michael John Albert Green Alexisonfire
  • Help
  • Record
  • Artists

• Now almost every artist outside of New York is connected with some school or some museum school, and even in New York the majority are. That's an interesting fact when you take the idea of making money, making a living selling paintings. Only a dozen or two painters do that.

  

  Ad Reinhardt
  • School
  • Money
  • Interesting

• A man renowned for repartee will seldom scruple to make free with friendship's finest feeling, will thrust a dagger at your breast, and say he wounded you in jest, by way of balm for healing.

  

  William Cowper
  • Men
  • Feelings
  • Healing

• We try to use the talents we do have to express our deep feelings, to show our appreciation of all the contributions that came before us, and to add something to that flow. That's what's driven me.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Feelings
  • Appreciation
  • Talents

• The garden is doing so well, we have so many greens and radishes that everyone is enjoying. Also, we are using one square as a compost bin, the Green Team is collecting food waste at lunch. Things are looking great, a huge thank you again.

  

  Mike Moreno
  • Garden
  • Squares
  • Compost

• When I am in Africa, I always have the feeling that it's where everything started. When I am in New York, I know it is where everything ended up.

  

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  • Feelings
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  • New York