Henry Rollins Quotes
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Women can't be afraid to look like action heroes. It's not always pretty, but when it's on the screen, it translates well to the audience.
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I think, for me, Julian Schnabel set a great precedent in being able to cross over so successfully. I feel like his artwork is kind of big, grand, and bombastic, yet the films that he makes are very beautifully sensitive, and I just feel that his filmmaking sensibility is very different from his artwork.
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I have a love/hate relationship with just about everything, but certainly with America.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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We don't need to bring down the rich folk to help the poor.
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You're going to have some ups and downs, so you have to prepare yourself to be ready. Those down moments come.
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Maybe it will be a great thing when the Baby Boomers finally die out. In real life, it's not a matter of the good guys or the bad guys. Rather, it's big numbers and small numbers that do the counting.
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It is a great honor to become Executive Producer of 'Frontline.' David Fanning's mentorship and partnership over the past fifteen years has been extraordinary. I am inspired by his legacy and honored to guide 'Frontline's future.
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Going back to my own past as a reader, I was a big, big reader of romances, particularly as a teenager, the age that my books are aimed at.
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When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity.
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You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, that don't believe that you have any kind of longevity.
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'The Simpsons' money got bigger and bigger. When I left 'The Simpsons', no one thought that this thing was going to still be around. It's the cumulative effect. It's like, 'Oh my God, 25 years later, and it's still coming in.'
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'The Notebook' is one of my favorite love stories.
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Enough to using Texas as a political laboratory for testing far-right ideas. Enough to using Texas as a workshop for fattening the wallets of their special interest friends and supporters. And enough of politicians listening only to each other, rather than real Texans.
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Men don't avoid successful women because they're jealous; they often do it to avoid being in competition with her next job promotion.
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Whatever you're selling, storage or networking or security, you're going head to head with the incumbent players.
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A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
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In London, before I set out, I had paid one shilling; another was now demanded, so that upon the whole, from London to Richmond, the passage in the stage costs just two shillings.
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The way that I'm working now is basically the way I've been working since I was a kid: Find the greatest artist in whatever you do, and rip them off with respect. I think there's a big difference between ripping off with respect and ripping off in disrespect.
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I don't think we spend enough time in reflection and introspection. We don't know who we are as individuals in this culture anymore.
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I used to like going out so much, and now I can't get myself to leave home.
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For me, having a balance between work and personal life is very important.
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I'm not executing my pitches. I'm not commanding my fastball, and I get behind in the count. When I try to throw strikes, I'm getting hurt. That's not the way I pitch.
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Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good.
