Henry Rollins Quotes

Pride is a thing that I have tried to abandon completely. Try as I might, pride still creeps into many of the things I do.

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• The options are war versus peace, and I am delighted that, so far, it appears that peaceful negotiation has won the day.

  

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• Ah, sweet Content, where doth thine harbour hold.

  

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• If you would make the most of yourself, never picture yourself as anything different from what you would actually be, the man or woman you long to become.

  

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• I never come away from a film thinking I nailed it.

  

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• Americans have the right under the Second Amendment to own firearms, and that is not going to change.

  

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• And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.

  

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• Michael Jackson wanted to be in Men in Black II. He told me he had seen the first Men in Black in Paris and had stayed behind and sat there and wept. I had to explain to him that it was a comedy.

  

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• We all understand it's a privilege just to be playing in this league.

  

  Calvin Johnson
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• Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.

  

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• In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?

  

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• When I wrote my eighth thriller, 'Inside Out,' in 2009, the villains were a group of CIA and other government officials who colluded to destroy a series of tapes depicting Americans torturing war-on-terror prisoners.

  

  Barry Eisler
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• There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.

  

  E. M. Forster
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• I love iTunes as much as anybody. It's very convenient and very easy. But there is nothing like the vibe that you get when you walk into a record store. And I think a lot of people are still thrilled to spend a half hour there and go through the bins and make some purchases.

  

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• Look, all this is about is utilizing the rules of the Senate, using a majority of the senators, to make sure that we get health reform done. We cannot wait another day.

  

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• The whole edifice of modern physics is built up on the fundamental hypothesis of the atomic or molecular constitution of matter.

  

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• The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity or a great art.

  

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• My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.

  

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• The Yiddish language is so rich and unusual that I've always been hooked on its sounds, although I don't speak it.

  

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• Remember, Orestes: you were part of my herd, you grazed in the fields along with my sheep. Your liberty is nothing but a mange eating away at you, it is nothing but an exile.

  

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• I don't see myself ever being in a position where I need to sign to a label.

  

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• Pride is a thing that I have tried to abandon completely. Try as I might, pride still creeps into many of the things I do.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Trying
  • Pride
  • Abandon