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.
Quotes to Explore
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It's no secret that I've become known for my strong political views.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Enthusiasm could not supply the place of experience.
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He hung up on her. She'd just been hung up on by a disembodied brain in a jar. Fantastic.
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...and my loneliness, always my loneliness - that airless bubble of despair that is slowing stifling me.
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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.
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Mike Oxley has provided steady, dedicated leadership to House Republicans, and I am grateful for his service.
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If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.
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Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and remove one accessory.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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Anorexia taught me to love life and to realise that starving yourself to death is a bloody waste of time. It's awful and it hurts so many people around you. It's a terribly selfish thing to do.
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In the morning, we carry the world like Atlas; at noon, we stoop and bend beneath it; and at night, it crushes us flat to the ground.
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I am not collecting copies of the cheaper editions of Omar Khayyám. I gave the last four that I received to the lift-boy, and I like to think of him reading them, with FitzGerald's notes, to his aged mother. Lift-boys always have aged mothers; shows such nice feeling on their part, I think.
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It's one thing to buy a copy of 'Atlas Shrugged.' You actually have to read it to get anything out of it.
