Henry Rollins Quotes

It's one thing to buy a copy of 'Atlas Shrugged.' You actually have to read it to get anything out of it.

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• It's no secret that I've become known for my strong political views.

  

  Carl Karcher
  • Political
  • Strong
  • Become

• I think with Shakespeare you can be required to do absolutely anything at the turn of a sixpence - suddenly you go into a battle, suddenly you utter something passionate.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Think
  • Battle
  • Turn

• I always revisit duality because I think it's a conflict we all have. I think we all leave our house and go to work, and we put on the cape and become superheroes. That's what we do. It's how we move through life and handle negativity: you do everything you can to stay away from it.

  

  Justin Scott
  • Life
  • Work
  • House

• I wish that we, as women, spent as much time on the well-being of our insides as we do with our looks on the outside.

  

  Cobie Smulders
  • Time
  • Women
  • Wish

• I've tried to maintain a healthy image but not necessarily a size because as women, we're all different sizes. I go for being the healthy size; whatever that is for you. It's important to embrace that and love your body for what it is. Each woman has her own body.

  

  Marisa Miller
  • Different
  • Important
  • Women

• Enthusiasm could not supply the place of experience.

  

  John Lothrop Motley
  • Experience

• He hung up on her. She'd just been hung up on by a disembodied brain in a jar. Fantastic.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Up
  • She
  • Brain

• ...and my loneliness, always my loneliness - that airless bubble of despair that is slowing stifling me.

  

  Tabitha Suzuma

• On, there are so many lives. How we wish we could live them concurrently instead of one by one by one. We could select the best pieces of each, stringing them together like a strand of pearls. But that's not how it works. A human life is a beautiful mess.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Life
  • Live
  • Together

• Mike Oxley has provided steady, dedicated leadership to House Republicans, and I am grateful for his service.

  

  Dennis Hastert
  • House
  • Service
  • Leadership

• If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.

  

  Michelangelo
  • Life
  • Death
  • Master

• Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and remove one accessory.

  

  Coco Chanel
  • House
  • Mirror
  • Remove

• My laptop seems to know where I am, even if I don't. My cellphone asks me if I want directions to anywhere from the spot I am standing in. I buy a record online and Amazon.com sends me letters, telling me that people who bought what I bought also bought these other records.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • People
  • Online
  • Cellphone

• In the film work, I love to work mainly from the script and from talking to the directors, so a lot of the music, big portions of the scores that I've made, have been composed before the movies were even shot.

  

  Gustavo Alfredo Santaolalla Bajofondo
  • Work
  • Music
  • Movies

• It's hard to describe, but there are times when... you feel a surge of the Spirit. Somehow you just know: others have chosen, when talking to the Author of all creation, to lift us up - to speak to Him about us!

  

  Tony Snow
  • Spirit
  • Author
  • Creation

• When I look up, I see people cashing in. I don't see heaven or saints or angels. I see people cashing in on every decent impulse and every human tragedy.

  

  Joseph Heller
  • Heaven
  • Angel
  • Tragedy

• Never change the person that you are just to fit in. You'll find your true friends that like you for you, and if you are happy with doing things that you genuinely enjoy, it shouldn't matter what other people think.

  

  Nicole Gale Anderson
  • Friends
  • Happy
  • Change

• I love nature, but I try to change it a little bit, not copy it.

  

  Elsa Peretti
  • Nature
  • Littles
  • Bits

• The first Velvet Underground album only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it formed a band.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Band
  • Copies
  • Velvet Underground

• The experienced physician, mechanic, or physiologist looking at a wound, an engine, a microscopic preparation, "sees" things the novice does not see. If both, experts and laymen, were asked to make exact copies of what they see, their drawings would be quite different.

  

  Rudolf Arnheim
  • Different
  • Preparation
  • Wounds

• When you draw, you copy the world don't you? You remake it on paper, but it isn't the same. It's yours. No one else could have created it just like that. When I make poems, I use the words we all use, but the order and the sound create a new power. This wood is someone's creation. We stumble through it's tendrils, as if we're crawling through the synapses of his mind.

  

  Catherine Fisher
  • World
  • Mind
  • Creation

• It's one thing to buy a copy of 'Atlas Shrugged.' You actually have to read it to get anything out of it.

  

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