Henry Rollins Quotes

One person's roar is another's whine, just as one person's music is another's unendurable noise.

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• I am a proud Zionist. I can tell you about every blossom that grows in this land. I know the history and the Bible.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • History
  • Proud
  • Bible

• Some people are cool with the fact that their bodies bear witness to this great thing they produced, their children, and I understand that. But on a personal level, it makes me feel better that my breasts are not down to my knees when I'm undressed in front of my husband.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • People
  • Great
  • Children

• We just here to do our job.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Job
  • Just
  • Here

• When we talk about the minimum wage, we have to ask ourselves what it is that we owe both our workers and employers. I think clearly we owe them fairness.

  

  Dalton McGuinty
  • Fairness
  • Wage
  • Minimum Wage

• I don't feel comfortable making empty music.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Music
  • Feel
  • Comfortable

• There is a restaurant in L.A. called Crustacean, which is very famous for its garlic crab. Well, I can make garlic crab better than Crustacean. My sauce is so good you'll want to dip your bread in it, put it on your egg omelet, in your cereal, and in everything else.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Good
  • Better
  • Famous

• Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.

  

  Ted Rall
  • Writing
  • Like
  • Road

• I wrote a techno song about the four things I love in Germany to make myself happy, which are my grandfather, my two poodle pets, bread, and a strange but delicious Turkish dish called Doener Kebab.

  

  Flula Borg
  • Love
  • Happy
  • Song

• If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Time
  • Success
  • Progress

• We've gone further on this album, where we have a Big Band song, kind of a Sinatra-type song; we have a couple songs that have electronic music on them. We've got a couple rock songs, maybe a little heavier than what we've done. So the title 'Jekyll & Hyde' really covers the breadth of the record.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Music
  • Done
  • Song

• I don't have a process; I just feel it. My book on acting would be very short.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Book
  • Process
  • Short

• Once imbued with the idea of a mission, a great nation easily assumes that it has the means as well as the duty to do God's work.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • Work
  • Great
  • God

• On YouTube you can tell what countries are watching and I've definitely noted a strong Australian following. You can plan your tours around where the love is on Twitter and YouTube - before, you couldn't tell.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • Love
  • Plan
  • Countries

• I loved making 'Rising Sun'. I got into the psychology of why she liked to get strangled and tied up in plastic bags. It has to do with low self-worth.

  

  Tatjana Patitz
  • Loved
  • Psychology
  • Self-Worth

• I don't think I've ever been haunted by a ghost, but I always joke with my fiance about the house we're living in right now. It seems to have something in it.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Think
  • House
  • Always

• I never looked at people or singing as commodities.

  

  Pat Benatar
  • People
  • Singing
  • Never

• I believe in hard work, not luck factor. The best efforts will reap the best fruits. Nobody can take all the credit. We don't even talk about the efforts of the director, the writers, other technicians, etc. They all together take a film to another level.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Together

• I have lived my life in a culture that hates fat people.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • People
  • Life
  • Culture

• I just need to believe that we're not in some form of stasis, that we can try to be whoever we want to be. We probably won't get there, but we might get a little bit closer, you know?

  

  Jonathan Evison
  • Believe

• And when no longer we can see Thee, may we reach out our hands, and find Thee leading us through death to immortality and glory.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Find
  • Glory
  • Immortality

• I don't come and fight for fun. I don't do that. I don't like to hurt people for fun.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • People
  • Fun
  • Hurt

• One culture I find fascinating to juxtapose against American culture is the culture of Germany. They've gone through a long process through their art, poetry, public discourse, their politics, of owning the fact of their complicity in what happened in World War II. It's still a topic of everyday conversation in Germany.

  

  Chris Jordan
  • World
  • Long
  • Art

• I often say to people that producing is the best-paid form of cowardice. When you produce things, you almost always get credit if it's a good record, but you hardly ever get the blame if it's not! You don't really take responsibility for your work.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• One person's roar is another's whine, just as one person's music is another's unendurable noise.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Music
  • Persons
  • Noise