Henry Rollins Quotes

I am an optimist because I want to change things for the better and I know that blood has to be spilled and disharmony and cruelty are necessary to do that.

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• As a viewer, I'm personally less interested in the damaged, white, middle-class male figuring out his dreams and more interested in maybe an underdog figuring out how they're going to survive in a world that doesn't necessarily invite them in.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • World
  • Dreams
  • Underdog

• People think they know who I am, because I've played so many very, very out gay men on stage, and they think that's me.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • People
  • Men
  • Play

• We've all got hurdles we have to overcome, and mine are not necessarily any bigger than anyone else's.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Bigger
  • Overcome
  • Hurdles

• Oh I've done bungee jumping. Skydiving, I have motorcycles that I ride. I'm a little bit of an adrenaline junkie in that way.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • Done
  • Way
  • Ride

• You win pennants in the off season when you build your teams with trades and free agents.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Free
  • Win
  • Season

• I remember teaching a clinic to other coaches, and a guy raised his hand and asked if I had any advice when it came to coaching women. I leveled him with a death-ray stare, and said, 'Go home and coach basketball.'

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Women
  • Home
  • Remember

• Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Power
  • Help
  • Words

• The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Live

• My message to a lot of guys is, if you like school and you like education, baseball is gonna be there, and you can get some of the same great competition in college that you do in the low minor leagues.

  

  Barry Larkin
  • Great
  • School
  • Education

• I think we can launch - successfully, high quality - around 20 original scripted shows a year, which means every 2 1/2 to three weeks you're launching a new season or a new show on Netflix meant to be for really diverse tastes all around the world.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • World
  • High
  • Quality

• I can trust in Jesus. And this Gospel that we preach does work. So those who are hurting and suffering today, hang in there. The sun will shine again.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • Work
  • Today
  • Trust

• Until he announced his immigration policy last week, Obama had the support of most Hispanic voters - but not the enthusiasm they had shown for him in 2008. That may be changing in part because of the decision not to deport young immigrants whose undocumented parents brought them here as children.

  

  Mara Liasson
  • Children
  • May
  • Parents

• We spend our time responding rationally to a world which we understand and recognize, but which no longer exists.

  

  Eddie Obeng
  • Time
  • World
  • Understand

• Emergency health care for illegal aliens along the southwestern border is already costing area hospitals $200 million a year, with perhaps another $100 million in extended care costs.

  

  Gary Miller Bad Brains
  • Health
  • Care
  • Year

• With all due respect to the people who made the motorcycle movies during the '60s, I felt the sophistication level could be a bit higher, and I felt I could raise the bar on that, too.

  

  Larry Bishop
  • People
  • Respect
  • Motorcycle

• Ambition is important. Of course you can't get anywhere without talent, but there are a lot of talented people. To succeed, you have to be the most ambitious talented person.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • People
  • Important
  • Talent

• I don't sit well. I like to move around as I talk.

  

  Garry Marshall
  • Talk
  • Well
  • Sit

• Therefore, sins of sex are punished in this life to a greater degree than some other sins.

  

  Walter Lang
  • Life
  • Sex
  • Degree

• The main problem is that most commentators are accustomed to thinking of spiritual schools as 'systems', which are more or less alike, and which depend upon dogma and ritual: and especially upon repetition and the application of continual and standardised pressures upon their followers.The Sufi way, except in degenerate forms which are not to be classified as Sufic, is entirely different from this.

  

  Idries Shah
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Problem

• Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Man
  • Forgets

• I've always been fascinated with prostitution. I looked it up in the dictionary as a child, and I remember hearing that Jesus would hang out with prostitutes. I would always focus on the prostitutes.

  

  Craig Seymour
  • Remember
  • Jesus
  • Fascinated

• Everyone I talked to was a recording-the bank, the elevator, your office, the school, a wrong number. You used to be able to call a wrong number and get a person.

  

  Erma Bombeck
  • School
  • Able
  • Office

• I want to admit that I am an optimist. Any tough problem, I think it can be solved.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Problem
  • Optimist

• I am an optimist because I want to change things for the better and I know that blood has to be spilled and disharmony and cruelty are necessary to do that.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Blood
  • Cruelty
  • Optimist