Henry Rollins Quotes

For many years, I tried to make New Year's resolutions. I made lists and shot for great heights: I would show altruism and exert moral strength, patience and all those other great attributes.

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• I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Single
  • Difficult
  • Stress

• I don't think I had the aspiration to be a star growing up. I loved Madonna and Bette Midler, and I had my karaoke machine and would sing their songs.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Up
  • Think
  • Growing

• In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • People
  • Life
  • Writing

• I never got into politics for it to be a career.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Career
  • Never
  • Politics

• I remember starting out and covering songs.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Remember
  • Songs
  • Starting

• My life has been a dream. If someone had to write a story about it, it would seem a little unreal. It's the kind of story I would read and say, 'Nah, that's not possible.'

  

  Ralph Lauren
  • Life
  • Dream
  • My Life

• Family entertainment is really very necessary in our culture. Look how profitable they are. It's almost not discretionary. You need to take your family to the movies.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Family
  • Culture
  • Movies

• I know that, as a comedian, I've made great strides because I've worked as hard as a person can work at being at least wildly amusing.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Work
  • Great
  • Know

• I acted when I was a real little kid. My mother was an actress in a Miami theater company comprised of actors from Cuba like her and I was the default kid.

  

  Yul Vazquez
  • Real
  • Mother
  • Company

• Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Writing
  • Money
  • Stories

• In falling over in heels while trying to look attractive, you don't just hurt your body, you bear the humiliation of injuring your very soul. Physical pain? Whatever, bring it on. But the humiliation? Oh, you have seen to the very weakest part of me.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • Trying
  • Soul
  • Pain

• It's just not my nature to go around idolizing people.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • People
  • Nature
  • Just

• My sister is not a public person, so I don't think it's right to discuss her.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Person
  • Right
  • Sister

• I always try to be nice to the paparazzi because finally, maybe one day, they won't ask for me, and I will regret it.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Nice
  • Day
  • Regret

• Trying to be smarter, work smarter, and just take care of my body more and more.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Care

• I think in the corridors of power these dangerous kinds of orders are issued in a much more vague way, passed down two or three levels of command before they're given to the assassin.

  

  Eddie Campbell
  • Power
  • Think
  • Down

• With a male-centric show, the women are usually very two-dimensional.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Women
  • Show
  • Very

• I think, over the years, I've earned the respect of my teammates as someone who first got on the scene and wasn't internationally ready and has just continued to put in the work.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Work
  • Respect
  • Teammates

• How many of us, who are engaged in the Lord's holy service, are secretly cherishing some proud purpose of excelling other men, of making a name, of securing money and applause.

  

  F. B. Meyer
  • Men
  • Money
  • Proud

• When I was a kid, my grandparents were Greek immigrants on my father's side. My grandfather used to read me Greek myths, in which there are a great many goddesses and stories of strong women. And I was entranced by them. Then I started reading science fiction very young, and I loved it.

  

  Laeta Kalogridis
  • Great
  • Women
  • Father

• When I've got time off, my feet get itchy really quickly.

  

  Paolo Nutini
  • Time

• When Fortune is on our side, popular favor bears her company.

  

  Publilius Syrus
  • Popular

• After 23 years at CNN, I have decided to resign in an effort to prevent CNN from being unfairly tarnished by the controversy over conflicting accounts of my recent remarks regarding the alarming number of journalists killed in Iraq.

  

  Eason Jordan
  • Effort
  • Journalists
  • Prevent

• For many years, I tried to make New Year's resolutions. I made lists and shot for great heights: I would show altruism and exert moral strength, patience and all those other great attributes.

  

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