Henry Rollins Quotes
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At the end of the day, don't forget that you're a person, don't forget you're a mother, don't forget you're a wife, don't forget you're a daughter.
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Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
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Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.
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The simpler I keep things, the better I play.
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I don't think taunting chants at players on the other side of the ice is intended to be sexist in the slightest. It's like when you call a goaltender a sieve, they chant that. Is that now inappropriate also?
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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And you can't complain about kissing Emma Watson. Isn't that what everyone in the world wants to do? I've known Emma for a few years. She's this amazing capacity of young and vibrant and brilliant, but also a bright, intelligent old soul.
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I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.
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I think of myself as a performance artist. I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
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I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.
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I think a lot of us feel the need to always be connected, and finding time to relax and sometimes play is something that I think we all need to make more time for, especially me.
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When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that's just unbelievable.
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Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business; in science only one thing matters, and that is the facts.
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I have a confession to make. In the beginning, I did not understand the Kate Moss phenomenon.
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I love Chennai and its people. My mother always tells me, 'You should have been born a South Indian!'
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A goal is a dream with a deadline.
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I have a lightsaber at my front door for home protection. I have an 800-watt electric skateboard that I use to run errands in my neighborhood. It can go about six, seven miles, so depending on how much time I have, and how much I have to carry home, I'll take it really far. I love that thing.
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My father was a minister, and it was more my mother that had the responsibility of making sure the family put out an outward of appearance of living what he was preaching. She was the PR.
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'Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss….' He turned to me. 'But every once in a while you find someone who's iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare.'
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Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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The most important advances, the qualitative leaps, are the least predictable. Not even the best scientists predicted the impact of nuclear physics, and everyday consumer items such as the iPhone would have seemed magic back in the 1950s.
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The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
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I was as unburdened as a piece of dandelion fluff, and he was the wind that stirred me about the world.
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I want to learn more about the world. It makes me want to get up and go.
