Henry Rollins Quotes
Go without a coat when it's cold; find out what cold is. Go hungry; keep your existence lean. Wear away the fat, get down to the lean tissue and see what it's all about. The only time you define your character is when you go without. In times of hardship, you find out what you're made of and what you're capable of. If you're never tested, you'll never define you character.
Quotes to Explore
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A book is not an example of 'women's writing' simply because it is written by a woman. Writing may become 'women's writing' when it could not have been written by a man.
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If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.
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I want to give kids that fall-off-the-bed-laughing feeling. Either that, or the sixth-grade feeling that life is hard - sometimes unbearably hard - and it is ultimately about death. But in the meantime, life can be really funny, too.
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When the art world is done wrong, a reader's faith is lost and possibly not recuperable.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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With Donald Trump as president and Republicans in control of Congress, our healthcare is under attack.
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I see myself as sexy. If you are comfortable with it, it can be very classy and appealing.
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I have made a public statement about me and Ralph by being seen with him. I don't need to make any other. You can live the way you want.
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The sun and its retinue of planets drift as a group through the vast gulfs of space that separate the stars.
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I'm not trying to be a star on TV. I am who I am, which I hope comes out. I have a little bit of a different sense than most people know, and it takes a while to get used to it.
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I remember watching Gilda Radner when I was a kid and everyone thought she was so funny and no one ever said that she was a funny woman, she was just funny.
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I will only speak off the record about Debra Winger.
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There's nothing good about divorce.
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If you are a professional, the speed with which you react to a potential problem separates the men from the boys.
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Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.
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London is one of the most exciting cities in the world, with a melting pot of cultures and diversity.
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I aimlessly travel, meaning I have no agenda other than to get small in the world, be quiet and observe people.
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Instead of asking 'what do I want from life?', a more powerful question is, 'what does life want from me?'
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There are millions of women all around the world who are in dangerous, terrifying situations. It's up to us as storytellers to give people hope, to let people know that there is a way out.
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I could remember thinking when I met him, 'Wow, that's Andy Sanders from Houston. He's really good.' And he tells me he said, 'Wow, that's Jimmy Walker. He hits it really far.'
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A story isn't interesting unless a character has real challenges to deal with.
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I write from this tight third-person viewpoint, where each chapter is seen through the eyes of one individual character. When I'm writing that character, I become that character and identify with that character.
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The test of a man’s religious life and character is not what he does in the exceptional moments of life, but what he does in the ordinary times, when there is nothing tremendous or exciting on. The worth of a man is revealed in his attitude to ordinary things when he is not before the footlights.
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Go without a coat when it's cold; find out what cold is. Go hungry; keep your existence lean. Wear away the fat, get down to the lean tissue and see what it's all about. The only time you define your character is when you go without. In times of hardship, you find out what you're made of and what you're capable of. If you're never tested, you'll never define you character.
