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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In Europe, there are many filmmakers working in the same territory: immigration, and the things that are most disruptive to European life today. That's not a judgment. I think it's good that cinema looks at such things.
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People regulate their level and distribution of effort in accordance with the effects they expect their actions to have. As a result, their behavior is better predicted from their beliefs than from the actual consequences of their actions.
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Trying to write while I'm distracted definitely doesn't work for me. I'm also a compulsive saver of my files, so every writing session ends with me emailing what I've written to myself, just in case.
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For me, it's a great joy to be together with priests: in the end, the bishop of Rome is the bishop and brother of all priests. His mandate is to confirm the brothers in the faith.
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Sometimes you fall out of love with what you do. Some days, you wake up and wish you worked on a farm.
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If I had to live my life in anticipation of what others thought of me, little would get done.