Henry Rollins Quotes
You’ll never know that just sitting across a room full of people, I have transformed you into a goddess. A destroyer of despair.
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The biggest issue that we have to contend with is campaign finance reform.
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Writing for children hadn't occurred to me when I was younger, but nine years of teaching in the upper elementary grades had given me a deep appreciation of the gifts and graces that are specific to individuals with 10 or 11 years of experience as human beings.
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Generally a chef's book is like a calling card or a portfolio to display their personal work.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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E. Klimov's 'Come and See,' about partisans fighting the Germans in Byelorussia, is the greatest anti-war film ever made.
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I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. I'd love to do a box-office hit.
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But the working I would always want to do.
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There are certain songs that just stick around and do something that transcends whatever time they were written in. Through different eras, people are able to impart different meaning to the song, and they become part of some sort of consciousness.
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Obama promised a return to competence and confidence and asked the nation to believe again that the government could do big things well. In the end, he got his big thing, a once-in-a-generation revision to the basic social compact, a commitment of health coverage to nearly all Americans. He has yet to prove he can do it well.
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In sailing, I single-hand, and I want to do the Horn. The Horn is the maximum expression of sailing, the way the Iditarod is the maximum expression of running dogs. It's not to write about it; it's to experience the maximum thing.
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When I do write, it happens really easily. I'll just kind of sing along to whatever I'm playing, then find a line to build off of, then sit down and write. When I do write, I take care of business!
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I think there's always been singers like that and i've done my fair share of cheese as well.
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Heart of America is a movie I'm very proud of. The young actors are great and the story has impact.
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I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine.
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The function of the novel is the exploration of the human condition. Really, that's what it's all about.
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Not too many people know it, but when I was in junior high, I was a pretty tough kid and was the leader of a street gang. Well, OK, it was less a street gang than an Ecology Club. We were pretty intimidating, though, and had our own meeting room until we got run out of there by a bunch of thugs from the Poetry Society.
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Definitely they write themselves. It's an amazing experience. It's like the characters have come alive and are sitting on my shoulder talking to me, telling me their tales.
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I think humans have to learn a new way of dwelling on this earth. A way of living with their companions: animals, plants and fish.
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For me, the greatest good fortune I have being raised by actors is I came in knowing that a career is the ebb and flow.
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Bureaucracy kills people's ability to try new ideas.
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You don't want to be with someone who is already not getting from you what he needs emotionally.
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I was so shy, I couldn't stand up in front of people and speak. Now I'm in the next big three Bollywood movies.
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You’ll never know that just sitting across a room full of people, I have transformed you into a goddess. A destroyer of despair.
