Henry Rollins Quotes
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In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
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They used to tease me at the 'Oprah' show, 'Are you really going to do another white Shaker kitchen, with white subway tile and stainless steel appliances?' And my answer is, 'I can vary it a bit, but I'm never going to err from classic materials.'
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Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.
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This is what's sick about living in L.A. My eight-year-old daughter will point to a woman and say, 'Look! That woman's had too much Botox.' She spots them because they all look a bit like Lord Voldemort from 'Harry Potter.'
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When girls are educated, you get effects that cascade throughout society.
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With the mega – fame came the mega – downfall – you know, with the press and everything – and at a young age, it was very stressful to me.
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Every once in a while I feel the tremendous force of the novel. But it does not stay with me.
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When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it.
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Western man is schizophrenic.
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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.
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No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.
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Obviously with the Internet and increased access to other means of watching shows, the audience has dispersed and is all over the place and that is a challenge.
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You know, my mum's always encouraged me and never made my gender an issue, I guess. She brought me up to believe in equality, as opposed to feminism or sexism – so it just meant that my gender was not relevant to what I was capable of achieving.
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The thing that everybody loves about the 'Burnett Show' was that you felt like you were really there - all that fun stuff stayed in the show, and I think that's why everybody remembers it so fondly because that just doesn't happen anymore on television.
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It don't make much difference what you study, so long as you don't like it.
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I think I usually have quite ordinary dreams. Sometimes my dreams take me to other dimensions. I can travel in my mind especially when I'm dreaming I focus my mind on what I want to dream. If I want to fly, I focus on flying.
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There's no silver bullet when it comes to helping all children achieve. Great public schools are our best shot.
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If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time.
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As women, we know that we must always find ways to change the process because the present institutions want to hold on to power and keep the status quo.
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If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.
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Joining finances can be tricky. Money has long topped the list of topics couples fight about.
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I'm South American, and growing up in New York, I had the total stereotypical way of thinking of what Texas was about. I'm like, Texas. Big. Cows. Cowboys. Cowboy hats and cowboy boots. And barbeque.
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It really was an amazing thing when Midlake brought me down to Texas and created an atmosphere in which I felt really safe and was able to do whatever I wanted artistically.
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Texas is as odd as it is vast.
