Henry Rollins Quotes
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Age is just a number. Unless, that is, you live in Hollywood, where there's this notion that if you haven't hit it big by your 20s, you may as well hit the road.
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For many years, the government of Canada has massively supported orchestras and the arts in general.
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Of course, we all watch James Bond with envy - knowing the U.S. government would never pay for the lifestyle he enjoys.
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Hollywood can be a really tough environment for anyone trying to make a living. Unfortunately for actors of color, namely Asian Americans, opportunities have been and remain substantially limited. One place this is not the case is on 'Hawaii Five-0,' where we have three Asian American series regulars and a landscape rich with diversity.
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I've never been good at meditation, but surfing is the closest I've ever come to that inner something.
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But the issue has to do with land, which is our land.
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It seemed like most of the memories faded before they had time to form. And after a while, my life with my father seemed like a familiar story or a distant dream.
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I used to have the 'Best Of Eddie Murphy' VHS tape that I wore out completely, watching it over and over again. His 'Buckwheat Sings' is, to this day, one of my all-time favorite sketches on the show. I also loved the one where he plays the Tooth Fairy.
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Dolomite is a whole mess of stuff, a mixture. It gets characterised as 'a stuff' because of the interest of oil geologists. It would have been a nonentity were it not for its applications.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids.
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There's always a mismatch between small entrepreneurial outfits and large companies, which often don't have the same outlook.
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A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.
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One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
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If you give a party, you better give it right.
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What I think I'm perceived as in France is, like, I'm this leading man always doing strange movies because most of the movies I did, like 'Irreversible' or 'Brotherhood of the Wolf' and a bunch of others, and even in France, they always come out as a particular movie, not like the typical French kind of movies that people know most of the time.
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The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a citizen of humanity, part of his nation, part of his family. He may have to make some compromises.
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Sex is the best high. It's better than any drug. I want to die making love because it feels so good.
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The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.
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Human beings can remain spiritual and religious while enjoying the benefits of rational administration of their affairs.
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If we are to be good stewards of the ocean, we need to understand what lives there and how the animals interact with each other and with their environment, which means we need to be constantly seeking new and improved methods for exploration and observation.
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I think that most minorities have experienced some form of racial abuse.
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'How about,' she said, 'that you do the logical thing because it’s the logical thing to do?'
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When people make my country look bad, I can't stand it.
