Henry Rollins Quotes
I really enjoy the lattitude I have with being a private citizen. I can get a lot done. I am good with that.
Quotes to Explore
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The only difference between a dead skunk lying in the road and a dead lawyer lying in the road is that there are skid marks around the skunk.
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Anytime you interfere with a natural process, you're playing God. God determines what happens naturally. That means when a person's ill, he shouldn't go to a doctor because he's asking for interference with God's will. But of course, patients can't think that way.
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I didn't expect to have music as my main thing. I always thought I was going to be a lawyer. When I graduated, I was doing really well with my music in Malaysia. I had stable income, and I had really good momentum in the music industry, so I had to make a decision whether to stop that and continue being a lawyer.
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We all experience power struggles in our lives - at the workplace, with our friends, in our love lives. In a way, we're all politicians.
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We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.
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Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite.
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I think people like it when you have a bit of personality.
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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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I don't want to sound obnoxious, but I like to think I brought it another step. I was able to bring people who were casually interested in boxing together.
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Love thy neighbor - and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier.
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In Japan, there's a TV series called Jin. It deals with time travel. I like stories about time travel. It's a story about people living in modern day that travel back to the Edo era. Those things really interest me.
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In the present imperialistic milieu there can be no wars of national self-defense.
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Day baseball is now dead for all practical purposes. Sooner or later, the game will be played in its entirety at night, and as I've said before, then baseball will be squarely in the amusement, the entertainment business along with wrestling, midget auto racing and the trotting tracks.
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Beyond being timely, an obituary has a more subjective duty: to assess its subject's impact.
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In every generation, there are quite firm rules on how to behave when you are crazy.
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I'm marriable. But I'm not married.
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My father was a screenwriter, but he was also a novelist.
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I'm so tired of men who are afraid to hurt women's feelings.
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There are a lot of parallels between the historical Henry VIII and Jonathan Rhys Meyers. There's an oscillation and extremity of emotion throughout his repertoire that lends itself beautifully to the nature of Henry VIII, definitely. He will push things to the limit, and yet remain in emotional control.
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I won't describe what I look like. Whatever you're thinking, it's probably worse.
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Some people believe I am the third Buddha, but this is people's choice. From me, never. I have never pretended I am special.
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I love finding out-of-the-box inspirations and blending them with what I've done in the past. And when I started to experiment with genres, it didn't sound forced. Maybe that's because it's all music that I listened to growing up, and it's all music that I love.
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Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.
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I really enjoy the lattitude I have with being a private citizen. I can get a lot done. I am good with that.
