Henry Rollins Quotes
If I had to live my life in anticipation of what others thought of me, little would get done.
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What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.
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For me, cerebral palsy wasn't the biggest deal, because I always had it. You know, you always work with what you got.
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I would do fragrance. I'm a fragrance fanatic.
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People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
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My role models were always the Pacinos and the Oldmans, the guys who get dirty with their characters, and I arrived in L.A. during the big boom of 'Dawson's Creek.' I was getting cast as the boy next door, or the friend of the jock. I thought, 'Did I really have to do all that studying?'
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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I think every girl's dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore.
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Fear obscures reason, intensifies emotions, and makes it easier for demagogic politicians to mobilize the public on behalf of the policies they want to pursue.
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I do not believe the American people are going to confuse hatred for passion.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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I am now faced with mortality. Definitely not the most generous move.
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I don't like to meddle in my private affairs.
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It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.
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It is a process of finding the right music then planning a costume to fit that style of music.
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The limelight is a tricky place, because you can't believe what's going on around you. You stop observing. You stop perceiving. You stop extending yourself, and you become isolated.
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You know, I've always thought that it would be really funny if somebody made a romantic comedy where absolutely everything went well from beginning to end.
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We routinely leave our small children in day care among strangers. At the same time, in our guilt we evince paranoia about strangers and foster fear in children.
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When my father announced his campaign for president on Oct. 3, 1991, I had already cast my vote in favor of his candidacy.
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Working with Danny Thomas was truly an adventure every week. Danny didn't always say the words as they appeared in the script. I learned more by osmosis than by sitting down together. He was a force to be reckoned with: an explorer of television.
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I have a lot of friends and fans in Orlando, and I'd love to see them again.
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How hard a thing is life to the lowly, and yet how human and real!
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If I had to live my life in anticipation of what others thought of me, little would get done.
