Henry Rollins Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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There is a recurring temptation for any nation, and for any writer who operates within its field of force, to make an ornament of the past: to turn the losses to victories and to restate humiliations as triumphs.
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I consider myself as a free spokesman for the people.
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Being a celebrity, I don't even have to talk.
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Captain Cook discovered Australia looking for the Terra Incognita. Christopher Columbus thought he was finding India but discovered America. History is full of events that happened because of an imaginary tale.
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It's not that I don't want a fast car. I like the speed. I'm just not the type of person who finds a sports car a sexy car.
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Baking is my pastime. I just love creating things. But it's not what I want to do for a living. Acting is what I want to do.
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It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.
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Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.
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Entrepreneurs and rowers show characteristics of curiosity and wanting to learn.
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Events at home, at work, in the street - these are the bases for a story.
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Hong Kong girls have a genius sense of style. I came back to the States thinking no one here has any individuality. Or cute enough socks.
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The two things you cannot do effectively on stage are pray and copulate.
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People must not do things for fun. We are not here for fun. There is no reference to fun in any Act of Parliament.
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I've been actually really very pleased to see how much awareness was raised around bullying, and how deeply it affects everyone. You know, you don't have to be the loser kid in high school to be bullied. Bullying and being picked on comes in so many different forms.
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I think in spring, we don't want to wear makeup, we don't want to wear a ton of clothes, we just want everything to be easier.
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Fighting in the air is not a sport. It is scientific murder.
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There are really three parts to the creative process. First there is inspiration, then there is the execution, and finally there is the release.
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This is why fiction is an art, and life is not - how much more affecting is the lie than the truth.
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Everyday, everywhere our children spread their dreams beneath our feet and we should tread softly.
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On Earth, we still have a beautiful atmosphere that precisely maintains a thermally driven climatic system that shelters, shields and sustains our natural treasures.
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I have problems with a lot of photography, particularly street photography and photojournalism - objectifying the other, finding the contempt and exoticism that you might feel within yourself or toward yourself and projecting it out to others. There can be an abusive power to photography, too.
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Life is a flame that is always burning itself out; but it catches fire again every time a child is born. Life is greater than death, and hope than despair.
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Affairs can be powerful detonators. They can invigorate a marriage that's flat, jolt people out of years of complacency. Fear of loss rekindles desire, makes people have conversations they haven't had in years, takes them out of their contrived illusion of safety.
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Songs sung under duress are often very powerful.
