Henry Rollins Quotes

Life forgets me but will not let me forget Holds me down and tells me that I'm free.

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• Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Great
  • Humanity
  • Tree

• You want to find out what it is about you or what it is about your past and your lineage that's in you now, and whether you carry those traits and maybe what one's mission is to take it to the next level.

  

  Olivia d'Abo
  • Want
  • Past
  • Mission

• I think film writing, you're thinking in pictures, and stage writing, you're thinking in dialogue. In film writing, it's also, you only get so many words, so everything has to earn its place in a really economical way. I think for stage writing, you have more leeway.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Words

• I read fashion magazines all the time. It's fun, but I don't take it very seriously.

  

  Becki Newton
  • Time
  • Fun
  • Fashion

• I'm neither a millennial nor a hipster.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Hipster
  • Neither
  • Nor

• Rock will never be dead for me. Do I like a lot of what I hear on rock music radio? No, not for the most part. I'm not a fan of the regurgitated Pearl Jam and Nickelback crap that's the biggest thing in the Midwest. There isn't that big of a market for rock anymore. Every once in a while something happens and you like it.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Music
  • Me
  • Rock

• Having two kids, I don't get out to see stand up much anymore.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Up
  • Kids
  • See

• If observed facts of undoubted accuracy will not fit any of the alternatives it leaves open, the system itself is in need of reconstruction.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • Facts
  • Will
  • Open

• I haven't a clue what's going to happen next, and I can't wait to find out.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Find
  • Happen
  • Wait

• I bought an electric scooter in sixth grade. Bankrupted me.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Me
  • Bought
  • Bankrupted

• I'm doing what I do for the right reasons. I love the music that I make.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Music
  • Right
  • Reasons

• Then as everything, like I say, things started to come together, when things started to go our way, that's when you results started to come. I was no different driver. I was certainly learning every time I went in the car.

  

  Dan Wheldon
  • Time
  • Different
  • Together

• If they keep booing, and we keep winning, I don't care.

  

  Tarvaris Jackson
  • Care
  • Winning
  • Keep

• We must be loyal to the forum of our government.

  

  Bainbridge Colby
  • Government
  • Loyal
  • Forum

• As it defines itself, every society defines other societies. That definition almost always takes the form of a condemnation: the 'other' is the barbarian.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Society
  • Always
  • Almost

• I think it's really important to remind, reinforce people that their lives have value, you know? That their lives have worth.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • People
  • Important
  • Value

• The first interviews I gave were entirely unpleasant. You have people trying to trip you up with impolite questions that have nothing to do with the books. It's simply vulgar curiosity, and I won't have it.

  

  Patrick O'Brian
  • People
  • Up
  • Trying

• I've done a lot of films that all have been pretty edgy.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Done
  • Pretty
  • Edgy

• I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Man
  • Mankind
  • Improve

• I don't initiate violence, I retaliate.

  

  Chuck Norris
  • Violence
  • Retaliate

• I remember feeling the temperature change the first time the curtain came up, the difference between the audience temperature and the stage temperature. I'll never forget it.

  

  Sarah Paulson
  • Remember
  • Feelings
  • Audience

• You wake up and you feel - what? Heaviness, an ache inside, a weight, yes. A soft crumpling of the flesh. A feeling like all the surfaces inside you have been rubbed raw. A voice in your head - no, not voices, not like hearing voices, nothing that crazy, just your own inner voice, the one that says 'Turn left at the corner' or 'Don't forget to stop at the post office,' only now it's saying, 'I hate myself.' It's saying, 'I want to die.'

  

  Carolyn Parkhurst
  • Hate
  • Crazy
  • Feelings

• Life forgets me but will not let me forget Holds me down and tells me that I'm free.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Forget