Henry Rollins Quotes

Punk-rock gave music back to people. For a long time, when I was very young, I went to go see arena rock bands. I was 16 and it was all I could get in to see, legally. And I saw Led Zeppelin and Ted Nugent and Van Halen and all that. Me and [Minor Threat and Fugazi vocalist] Ian MacKaye would go to these concerts, and it was fun.

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• You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Death
  • Fear
  • Enemy

• For me, it's always been very essential to work on projects that one can work on almost for their entire life.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Life
  • Work
  • Me

• It's almost like he's started to sound even more exotic the more people started doing him. I don't know why, but there's just something about Al Gore that makes me laugh.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • People
  • Why
  • Sound

• If you're out for two years, and you beat one guy with a full-time job, without disrespect, but we're talking about fighting for a world title. You can't just beat a guy that went there to cover some guy that got injured, and then this guy, after two and a half years, gets a title shot.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Time
  • World
  • Job

• There is kind of an underground conservative movement in Hollywood, really.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Kind
  • Movement
  • Conservative

• I liked English and art and did a lot of painting. And for some reason I was good at math, but I wasn't an A student. I really had to work hard to get good grades.

  

  Natasha Bedingfield
  • Good
  • Work
  • Art

• The Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center serves as a poignant reminder of our past and a trusted source of education for schoolchildren, community members, and visitors from across the country.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Country
  • Past
  • Education

• I don't think being a writer who is religious means you have to write about nothing but religion. When I do write about religion, it's to inform the story, not to push a certain agenda.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Think
  • Religious
  • Religion

• I have born-again Christians in my family, and they are completely against abortion... Everybody's got to stop being afraid of it real soon. Who's going to do it if a woman's network doesn't? People are going to be dying.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • People
  • Real
  • Family

• The way that people have gotten on board with me is the most encouraging thing in the world, but it's all very connected to the 14 years I've been on tour with Steel Train, even my band before that, Outline, and then fun. and now Bleachers.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • World
  • Fun

• I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Good
  • Great
  • Sacrifice

• No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Man
  • See
  • Blind

• When I heard Elvis and his 'Sun Sessions,' I went mad for it. I was about thirteen.

  

  Imelda May
  • Sun
  • Mad
  • Heard

• It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive.

  

  Barry Mann
  • Nature
  • Amazing
  • Positive

• There should be no censorship of mail.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • Should
  • Censorship
  • Mail

• Making the 'An Idiot Abroad' series, I was really dreading going to India; I thought I'd hate it. It was a nightmare, and I was really ill - just like everyone says.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Hate
  • Thought
  • Idiot

• I had a lot of survival jobs. One was for the Witty Ditty singing-telegram company. I was in the red-and-white stripes with the straw boater hat and kazoo. Balloons. Even when you're sleeping on a friend's couch, you have to pay some kind of rent.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Friend
  • Singing
  • Red

• The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

  

  Nathaniel Branden
  • Change
  • Acceptance
  • Step

• Consider then, O man! whether there can be anything more wretched and poor, more naked and miserable, than man when he dies, if he be not clothed with Christ's righteousness, and enriched in his God.

  

  Johann Arndt
  • God

• Hazel always used to say There's not enough darkness in the entire universe to snuff out the light of just one little candle.

  

  Fannie Flagg
  • Light
  • Universe

• We have institutionalized a drone program where the oversight is almost completely internalized.

  

  Matt Apuzzo

• I would give the people of America to their first opportunity to elect a president who doesn't belong to either party since George Washington.

  

  Jesse Ventura
  • People
  • America
  • Opportunity

• In the adverts, I look like I do because 150 people have spent seven hours making me look dazzling. That's not me at all.

  

  Keeley Hawes
  • People

• Punk-rock gave music back to people. For a long time, when I was very young, I went to go see arena rock bands. I was 16 and it was all I could get in to see, legally. And I saw Led Zeppelin and Ted Nugent and Van Halen and all that. Me and [Minor Threat and Fugazi vocalist] Ian MacKaye would go to these concerts, and it was fun.

  

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