Henry Rollins Quotes

With age, life becomes complex and difficult, often fraught with risk on several levels, from the practical to the fiscal.

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• The word inventors have to create a new term to describe how I felt when I learned that 'Refund' was on the shortlist for the Frank O'Connor International Story prize - Excited, thrilled, honored, none of them quite do it.

  

  Karen Bender
  • Story
  • Create
  • Learned

• The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • Modern
  • Greatest
  • Printing

• There's no problem with fans and bands. There's a problem with the economics of the outside disruption of the industry.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Problem
  • Fans
  • Economics

• From my years of teaching creative writing, I know that new writers take the setting for granted, as simply a place to set the action, but setting is a vital element in fiction writing and deserves serious treatment.

  

  Garry Disher
  • Writing
  • Action
  • Serious

• Press conferences aren't the best thing to do, but it's part of the job.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Job
  • Best
  • Press

• With the greatest of respect, I have watched Apple from the day it started. I was publishing magazines about the Apple II before most people had ever heard what a personal computer was.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • People
  • Respect
  • Day

• My most joy that I have is dancing.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Joy
  • Dancing
  • Most

• Online, you have things like Slate Magazine, which has a lot of commentary and analysis of stories, so it gives you a fuller picture. I would compare that to a news magazine or the New Republic.

  

  Tabitha Soren
  • Picture
  • New
  • News

• Yeats, protected to some extent by the Nationalistic movement, wrote out of a somewhat protected world, and so his work does not touch life deeply.

  

  Patrick Kavanagh
  • Life
  • World
  • Work

• I think that what happens for many Christians is, they accept their particular faith, they accept it to be true, and they stop examining it. Consequently, because it's already accepted to be true, they don't examine other people's faiths... That, I think, is not healthy for a person of any faith.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • People
  • True
  • Think

• I am outraged that the Gorillaz have infringed the copyright of my song 'Time Warp,' claiming their song 'Stylo' to be an original composition.

  

  Eddy Grant
  • Song
  • Composition
  • Original

• The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Up
  • Different
  • Together

• Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Fate
  • Existence
  • Nothing

• I've just had a wonderful time doing Chinese music, and it's been so rewarding for me. I feel like there's so much potential in mandarin music, and there's so much, you know, ground left to be broken.

  

  Wang Leehom
  • Time
  • Music
  • Broken

• By taking the time to stop and appreciate who you are and what you've achieved - and perhaps learned through a few mistakes, stumbles and losses - you actually can enhance everything about you. Self-acknowledgment and appreciation are what give you the insights and awareness to move forward toward higher goals and accomplishments.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Time
  • Stop
  • Goals

• Stop bragging about your lack of sweat and effort in achieving your goals. Start bragging about how hard you work, how patient you've become.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Work
  • Stop
  • Effort

• You know, everybody has a slogan, and once you beat people over the head with it so much, then that's what you'll eventually be called once you retire from the sport or whatever.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • People
  • Know
  • Retire

• I want to be like Bruce Springsteen or something, making songs that are relevant.

  

  J. Cole
  • Want
  • Like
  • Something

• I don't think 'my way or the highway' works, that mentality. And that's what the Tea Party has done: drawn a line in the sand. I'm sorry - that doesn't work in business, that doesn't work in your family, it certainly doesn't work in government and our Congress.

  

  Patrick Murphy
  • Work
  • Family
  • Done

• The failure in Ohio to have adequate voting capacity for the people who were registered and eligible to vote was an absolute denial of their right to vote.

  

  Carol Moseley Braun
  • People
  • Failure
  • Vote

• I'm a take-no-prisoners type of comic, and I'm lucky because my fans get me and never have a problem with the politically incorrect themes of my act. But I am continually amazed by how a certain section of our society seems to be so freakin' sensitive about jokes.

  

  Lisa Lampanelli
  • Society

• We live in an age of music for people who don't like music. The record industry discovered some time ago that there aren't that many people who actually like music. For a lot of people, music's annoying, or at the very least they don't need it. They discovered if they could sell music to a lot of those people, they could sell a lot more records.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• I came to Notre Dame to renew the winning tradition.

  

  Ara Parseghian
  • Winning

• With age, life becomes complex and difficult, often fraught with risk on several levels, from the practical to the fiscal.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Age
  • Risk
  • Difficult