Henry Rollins Quotes
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I don't think I have a signature.
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I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.
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Don't feel sorry for me. I've had a great life, great friends.
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People want to help me. They want the best for me. I always say thank you to people when they try that. I never get mad.
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'LazyTown' is basically about motivation. So what do I call motivation? I call it 'go.' The show is going to inspire kids to go. Go fishing. Go dancing. Go live.
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People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.
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I love David's attitude in the Bible. He wasn't afraid to go against the trends. He wasn't going to be defined by the opinions of others.
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Oil is ancient wealth in the ground.
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Europe and Africa share proximity and history, ideas and ideals, trade and technology. You are tied together by the ebb and flow of people. Migration presents policy challenges - but also represents an opportunity to enhance human development, promote decent work, and strengthen collaboration.
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Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.
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The Israeli public is frustrated with the way it is portrayed abroad.
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I feel like I was in the last graduating class of commercial actors.
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For a production that suggests a mysterious dreamscape, I have a particular affection for the Vivian Beaumont Theater. It is the largest dramatic space available in New York City in terms of plays, although musicals have been done there very successfully as well.
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I grew up listening to a lot of different types of music, and R&B in particular was something that I loved - Aaliyah, Usher, Alicia Keys, TLC.
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You've got to be yourself, and if you're not, you're a phony. It comes shining through if you're not careful.
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I really like to please people, and I think it's a symptom of being an only child.
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Childhood is precious... Hardest part of growing up? Is growing up, I think.
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And I have known the arms already, known them all - Arms that are braceleted and white and bare But in the lamplight, downed with light brown hair!It is perfume from a dress That makes me so digress?Arms that lie along a table, or wrap about a shawl. And should I then presume?
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I see my albums as working diaries, as living scrapbooks of me and my life.
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I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me. Why should it keep what I must lose? Every moment that passes takes something from me and gives something to it. Oh, if it were only the other way! If the picture could change, and I could be always what I am now! Why did you paint it? It will mock me some day—mock me horribly!
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You can't be glued in the '60s. Walking around, going up the pub or popping to Tesco in a hunting jacket.
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If you didn’t make mistakes you wouldn't get far.
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A foreign correspondent is someone who lives in foreign parts and corresponds, usually in the form of essays containing no new facts. Otherwise he's someone who flies around from hotel to hotel and thinks that the most interesting thing about any story is the fact that he has arrived to cover it.
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Pizza makes me think that anything is possible.