Henry Rollins Quotes
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Our higher education system is one of the things that makes America exceptional. There's no place else that has the assets we do when it comes to higher education. People from all over the world aspire to come here and study here. And that is a good thing.
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I do Athlete Devotion throughout all my fight camps. I am a Christian, so I fight with God first, and I have my devotions with me everywhere I go.
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I learned that despite having years and years of experience in math and computer science and so on, I didn't really know how to code until I formed a company.
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My father was a factory worker, and we were really poor. But everything I earned peddling papers and working in stores, he made me put aside for education.
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Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.
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I was given away. If your mother gives you away, you think everybody who comes into your life is going to give you away.
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No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.
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Unfortunately, I'm very accident-prone.
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The Taliban is the Muslim version of the Salem witch trials.
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Elaine Equi has been publishing her observant, often playful poetry for some 30 years, extending and deepening the range of her intrinsically wry voice.
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It's not comfortable for me to write about my family. I'm not comfortable writing about me.
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During my childhood, Washington was a segregated city, and I lived in the midst of a poor black neighborhood. Life on the streets was often perilous. Indoor reading was my refuge, and twice a week, I made the hazardous bicycle trek to the central library at Seventh and K streets to stock up on supplies.
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I feel like the word 'mom' and 'supermom' should be synonymous. When you are a mom, you are a superhero.
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The beauty of life is in people who feel some obligation to enhance life. Without that, we're only half alive.
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For me, choice is the most important thing because I'm going to be an adult actor pretty soon. So I've got to be choosing the right roles now so that by the time I get to that age there will be wide options available.
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Sweden will always be my home, since my childhood there was like a fairytale, so I'll always go back to it.
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I don't weigh a pound over one hundred and eighty and, what's more, I never did.
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People have to start realizing that money is just a fiction, an idea.
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Government does not cause affluence. Citizens of totalitarian countries have plenty of government and nothing of anything else.
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It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another.
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My self . . . is a dramatic ensemble. Here a prophetic ancestor makes his appearance. Here a brutal hero shouts. Here an alcoholic bon vivant argues with a learned professor. Here a lyric muse, chronically love-struck, raises her eyes to heaven. Her papa steps forward, uttering pedantic protests. Here the indulgent uncle intercedes. Here the aunt babbles gossip. Here the maid giggles lasciviously. And I look upon it all with amazement, the sharpened pen in my left hand.
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when the thrill of his body fades or changes, and the difficulties of pledging yourself to only one person surface, kindness will be the balm that soothes the wounds of life.
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Everything you do makes my body scream with loneliness.
