Henry Rollins Quotes

I read a bit of Ray Bradbury when I was a younger man. I don't read a lot of fiction anymore... like, none.

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• I was brought up with beautiful music - Nat King Cole and Glen Miller from my dad, and my mum loved Judy Garland and Doris Day - brilliant stuff. Through my brothers and sisters I heard David Bowie and The Specials, The Carpenters, Meatloaf and The Rolling Stones.

  

  Imelda May
  • Up
  • Music
  • Beautiful

• Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • Being
  • Confuse
  • Blunt

• If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Man
  • Lose
  • Losing

• The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie.

  

  Damon Albarn Blur
  • People
  • Work
  • Real

• The guys in my band are good friends on and off the stage. The band members that I have now is probably the best band that I have ever had.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Band

• I am just enjoying what cricket has given me. In sports, it's obviously really important for all of us to remain fit - and health is wealth, so health comes with the sport.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Important
  • Health
  • Sports

• I travel around the world, and there are so many beautiful girls, but that's not going to make you a supermodel. You have to have something more than just a pretty face.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • World
  • Pretty
  • Beautiful

• I think a lot of women, especially ones that want to achieve career goals, tend to worry. I don't want anyone to worry their life away - time goes by so fast, and worry is really wasted time and energy.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Life
  • Time
  • Women

• Before I got married, I dated the gamut.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Married
  • Before
  • Got

• It was all men, and there I was prancing around in gowns that barely got past the censors.

  

  Karen Morley
  • Men
  • Past
  • Got

• If I were a serious person, I'd probably have a real job.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Real
  • Job
  • Serious

• I have a bad reputation for being temperamental.

  

  Ted Kotcheff
  • Bad
  • Being
  • Reputation

• Losses have propelled me to even bigger places, so I understand the importance of losing. You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner. It's in any game that you're in - a business game or whatever - you can't get complacent.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Business
  • Game
  • Loss

• We believe that marriage, by its very definition, can exist only between a man and a woman. Moreover, study after study - not to mention common sense - show that children fare better in life when raised in a home with a loving father and mother in a stable, committed relationship.

  

  Salvatore J. Cordileone
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Children

• I've gone on the wagon, but my body doesn't believe it.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Believe
  • Body
  • Wagon

• In the film world, and I know this from just talking to other people, that I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor, and the fact is I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• 'That guy was a homo - as sure as you're alive.' - Robertson, describing a caller during his appearance on the Larry King Show (Windows Media Video)

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Guy
  • King

• 'Humanity has evolved-as far as it has evolved,' continued the old priest, 'with no thanks to its predecessors or itself. Evolution brings human beings. Human beings, through a long and painful process, bring humanity.''Empathy,' Aenea said softly.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Long
  • Humanity
  • Thanks

• One thing remaining, infallible, would be Enough.

  

  Wallace Stevens

• I get plenty of, 'Is that song about me?' from men but I just tell them to get over themselves.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Men
  • Song
  • Me

• Judge men less by the labels they wear than by their persistent labour for sure if slow progress.

  

  John Burns
  • Men
  • Progress
  • Judge

• Coldplay songs deliver an amorphous, irrefutable interpretation of how being in love is supposed to feel, and people find themselves wanting that feeling for real. They want men to adore them like Lloyd Dobler would, and they want women to think like Aimee Mann, and they expect all their arguments to sound like Sam Malone and Diane Chambers. They think everything will work out perfectly in the end (just like it did for Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones and Nick Hornby's Rob Fleming), and they don't stop believing because Journey's Steve Perry insists we should never do that.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • People
  • Work
  • Men

• I've written about 2,000 short stories; I've only published 300 and I feel I'm still learning. Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old fashioned virtues of hard, constant labor, he'll eventually make some kind of career for himself as a writer. Ray Bradbury, 1967 interview (Doing the Math - that means for every story he sold, he wrote six "un-publishable" ones. Keep typing!)

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Men
  • Kind
  • Mean

• I read a bit of Ray Bradbury when I was a younger man. I don't read a lot of fiction anymore... like, none.

  

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