Henry Rollins Quotes
So, one way or another, I found myself in a few movies. I take it seriously when I'm on the set, but I don't take myself seriously as an actor.
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Music is always there, but if you're asking me my first love, it's film.
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More than trends, consumers need functionality. Everything needs an element of fashion, but that's more like a spice.
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I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.
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I remember starting out and covering songs.
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Well, everybody is trying to make this a money thing. If you send me to another team, let's see what I ask for. I won't ask for nothing. I'll play under the same terms. So it is not Gary wants more money. Gary has money. What else do I need?
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Well, being that, at the house and being in the competition, it was very hard to be with family. We couldn't have visitors out of respect for everyone else there. But, being the American Idol, the focus would have been on me.
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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.
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The next time you feel unworthy, inadequate or inferior, remember that these experiences have nothing to do with humbleness, any more than lowering yourself to connect with another individual has to do with humbleness. There are no lower or higher individuals in the perception of a humble person. There are only souls. There is only love.
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I save money when I'm working so that I never have to take a role simply to pay the bills.
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer.
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In case you're wondering whether I lip synch, the answer is no... people think so because I sound so good.
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Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is.
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I wouldn't bother to describe me. I'm Eartha Kitt.
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My mother was a librarian, and she worked at the Black Resource Center in South Central Los Angeles and would call me to tell me stories that she read about that were interesting to her.
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But I had a very traditional background as well. My parents are neat people.
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There's a passion about this because people take it very close to their hearts and they have grown up with James Bond - and so have I. But I was being criticized before I had presented anything, so it was name calling.
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I'm not a macroeconomics person.
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There's a lot of talent in South Central L.A., in Compton and Long Beach and Watts, and the city north of Pico pretty much sits back and waits for that talent to emerge and then steps in.
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I certainly would never want to be normal. When people say, "You're weird," I usually take it as a compliment.
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So, one way or another, I found myself in a few movies. I take it seriously when I'm on the set, but I don't take myself seriously as an actor.
