Henry Rollins Quotes
When life hands you a lemon, say 'Oh yeah, I like lemons. What else you got?
Quotes to Explore
-
Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.
-
I've found a letter that was written to me from a girl who was getting married. And she wanted to know the secret of a happy marriage. I said - and I wrote back and said something to the effect that I couldn't - I had no magic formula. And I never sat down and thought about it, but everything just fell into place with Ronnie and me.
-
In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.
-
There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
-
It drives me crazy when your parents try to read your mind. It's even worse when they try to read your mail.
-
Most Americans probably have no idea how hostile anti-abortion sidewalk counseling outside clinics can be. There's a reason pro-choicers volunteer to escort patients as they make their way past angry crowds to the clinic door.
-
From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
-
If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.
-
I approve of anyone wearing what the establishment says you must not wear.
-
I'd love to return to theater.
-
I left home at 17 and I've been on the road ever since.
-
The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal and my own work.
-
During the Cold War, the U.S. instituted a policy of sending money to governments in poor countries to buy their political loyalty. While studies show that sending aid to foreign governments creates allegiance, it does not lead to economic progress.
-
I use to live on this street when I was a kid where there was an old person retirement home, and all of the old people would listen to that band Herman's Hermits, and they would wear white nursing shoes. And they would throw away stacks of VHS tapes, and I would go through the trash and take them.
-
The very best testament to the validity of the Warren Commission's findings is that after an unrelenting, close to forty-five-year effort, the Commission's fiercest critics have not been able to produce any new credible evidence that would in any way justify a different conclusion.
-
Twenty-first century war adds new risks: more and more often there are no front lines, no central command, no rules of engagement - only a chaotic collision of politics, power, faith and bloodlust. Victims are as likely to be civilians as soldiers.
-
Listen, I'm not a rich kid. I'm a cultured kid; I'm very rich in culture.
-
I try to play my game and that's being emotional because I'm that kind of guy.
-
Everything kind of has a message in it.
-
A series of rumors about my attitude, as well as derogatory remarks about myself and my family showed me that the personal resentment of the Detroit general manager toward me would make it impossible for me to continue playing hockey in Detroit.
-
Most families rely on two incomes to make ends meet, and when a woman earns less, we put working families at a huge disadvantage.
-
When I put Foster The People together, I just wanted to play music with friends.
-
We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion.
-
When life hands you a lemon, say 'Oh yeah, I like lemons. What else you got?
