Henry Rollins Quotes

Music, to me, is mankind's greatest possible achievement because look at all the good it does.

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• We were talking about how old quarterbacks can't throw before 10 am... Practice starts too early for us. Wake me up in the middle of the night and I can throw. I can throw anytime.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Night
  • Practice
  • Starts

• Vox populi vox dei: the voice of the people is the voice of God. The slogan was useful for those who first attempted to substitute the people for God as the source of political authority. Their attempt was ultimately so successful that God no longer seems to be needed in government.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • People
  • God
  • Political

• I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Family
  • Business
  • Funny

• Really, of all the important mission responsibilities assigned to United States Strategic Command by the president, none is more important than our responsibility to deter a strategic attack on the United States and our allies and partners.

  

  C. Robert Kehler
  • Important
  • Responsibility

• You know, I had the music baskets and the writing basket. And I had the acting. And those eggs just hatched first, and the others were slow to incubate.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Acting

• I never thought of being disadvantaged.

  

  Natalie du Toit
  • Never
  • Thought
  • Being

• The Dumnonii, whose city or fortress was at Exeter, were an important people. They occupied the whole of the peninsula from the River Parret to Land's End. East of the Tamar was Dyfnaint, the Deep Vales; west of it Corneu, the horn of Britain.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • People
  • Important
  • City

• Being a writer - even a best-selling one - is usually not anywhere near as public as being a movie star, at least not when I'm out in 'real life' like this. Not that I don't use what fame I have, every chance I get, to help sell more books.

  

  Nancy Pickard
  • Life
  • Real
  • Movie

• I don't expect anybody to know who I am.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Know
  • Expect

• Louie and Seabiscuit were both Californians and both on the sports pages in the 1930s. I was fascinated. When I learned about his World War II experiences, I thought, 'If this guy is still alive, I want to meet him.'

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • World
  • War
  • Guy

• As in any war, there have been dreadful mistakes and civilian casualties. The difference is when Israelis kill innocents they apologize; when Hezbollah kills innocents they celebrate.

  

  J. D. Hayworth
  • War
  • Mistakes
  • Celebrate

• Words originating from the verb 'to die' were frequently used when I described my initial plans to determine the ribosome structure.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Words
  • Die
  • Plans

• I thought using the Ayatollah's money to support the Nicaraguan resistance was a neat idea.

  

  Oliver North
  • Money
  • Support
  • Thought

• Of course, nothing just falls into your lap - to get where I am now, I've worked hard.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Hard
  • Worked

• Who I have fought and how I have fought, it says something about me.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Me
  • Something
  • How

• One can only become a philosopher, but not be one. As one believes he is a philosopher, he stops being one.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Being
  • Become
  • Only

• One thing I know that's true about horror fans of any color is they like to be scared. And the easiest place to be scared is in a new thing.

  

  Tananarive Due
  • True
  • Know
  • Color

• When the prophets conceived Jehovah as the special vindicator of these voiceless classes it was another way of saying that it is the chief duty in religious morality to stand for the rights of the helpless.

  

  Walter Rauschenbusch
  • Religious

• I'm going to give up hits, so I'm going to need to get some ground balls, double plays and stuff like that. That's just kind of my game.

  

  Andy Pettitte
  • Game
  • Balls
  • Hits

• Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Nature
  • Development
  • Inaction

• I can recall, as a young adult, running through the rain forest at the Forest Reserve, at times feeling a sense of fear when I felt I was in danger. In danger of confronting an ugly snake or a coral snake, which represented the greatest fear of someone in a rural area when you traverse the forest.

  

  Anthony Carmona
  • Fear
  • Feeling
  • Running

• The most important thing to strive for in life is some kind of personal and professional achievement. Not as a man or a woman, but as a person.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Life
  • Important
  • Man

• The harder you look, the harder you look.

  

  Christopher Wool
  • Looks
  • Harder

• Music, to me, is mankind's greatest possible achievement because look at all the good it does.

  

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