Henry Rollins Quotes

I think hip-hop has definitely brought the black experience to white kids more than the civil rights movement did and more than any teacher's well-intentioned lecture on Martin Luther King did.

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• I just don't want to be rapping forever. I love it, but sometimes you got goals for yourself.

  

  Obie Trice
  • Sometimes
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• My work involves online dating, but I believe almost every behavior exhibited online has an offline corollary. Really, the medium doesn't change human nature.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Nature

• Considering all the legal hassle child stars can be, I won't be surprised when they are phased out by CGI children voiced by adult actors.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • Children
  • Child
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• I was riding my mountain bike in Colorado, and I met a dog who reminded me so much of my very first dog, in the way she interacted with me, looked at me, and wagged her tail, that I rode away convinced I'd just very possibly met the reincarnated version of my long lost friend.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
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• In the 60s, if you wanted to be an actor, you couldn't do just one thing.

  

  Barry Bostwick
  • You
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• It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • People
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• I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Hope
  • Black
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• I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find their place in the world, but they all start off in the same place. I'm always painting and drawing as well, and it's an ongoing creative assignment.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • World
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• The bad boy: always more fun.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Bad
  • Fun
  • Boy

• As a member of this court I am not justified in writing my private notions of policy into the Constitution, no matter how deeply I may cherish them or how mischievous I may deem their disregard.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • Writing
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• Before this distinguished assembly and the world, the bells today proclaim the joyous tidings of the completion of this quietly soaring tower.

  

  Earl Warren
  • World
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• I think for a lot of amateurs, their alignment is always out.

  

  Karrie Webb
  • Think
  • Always
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• I sailed through my childhood with a complete lack of any drama.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Childhood
  • Drama
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• Upon this the Hungarian ministers resigned, but the names submitted by the president of the council, at the demand of the king, were not approved of for successors.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
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• The Civil Rights Movement, it wasn't just a couple of, you know, superstars like Martin Luther King. It was thousands and thousands - millions, I should say - of people taking risks, becoming leaders in their community.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
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• There's no people like show people.

  

  Irving Berlin
  • People
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• Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.

  

  Walt Handelsman
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• Over the years I have tried to develop something which is technically assured.

  

  Gavin Bryars
  • Years
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• I have to be honest: I think production is mad - exciting - because, of course, you're creating the record. When you're a singer, you're just singing. Creating the music, directing, and seeing where it's gonna go in production is very, very exciting.

  

  Labrinth LSD
  • Music
  • Singing
  • Mad

• You either go through your life working for someone and getting a paycheck - and it can be a damn good paycheck, and I am not complaining as someone who has always been a salaried employee - or you can go out and become an entrepreneur.

  

  Al Michaels
  • Life
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• Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Thinking
  • Always
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• Brooks Robinson belongs in a higher league.

  

  Pete Rose

• I didn't really fit well with what was going on in Nashville at the time. I was too loud, I was too bluesy, I was too "a lot of things.

  

  Charlie Daniels
  • Time
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• I think hip-hop has definitely brought the black experience to white kids more than the civil rights movement did and more than any teacher's well-intentioned lecture on Martin Luther King did.

  

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