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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I'll always love rap, no matter what's going on.
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I've been really fortunate that I've worked with a lot of strong women who are also mothers.
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I would love to have been born in the '60s.
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And it's here and it's ready and we can really revolutionize the way we educate our children with tablet computers, and I'm committed to doing whatever I can to speaking to whomever I can to send this signal - to pound this message home. Now is the time.
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My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring still.
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Texas is as odd as it is vast.
