Henry Rollins Quotes
When I am in Africa, I realize I don't know much, have not seen much, and there's a lot to be done.
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I think a strong dollar is the result of policies, but I don't think the strong dollar is in and of itself a policy.
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Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government.
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From early morning to late at night, it's such an interesting life, and I'm healthy and free, and that's not so easy with a family.
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It's such an honor to do this job because I love it. And I get to work outside, and what can beat that?
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You have had indeed a fair trial. It is a shocking thing when a judge of your high office is shown to have betrayed the truth and his honor, and I sentence you to the penitentiary.
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I always see where I didn't do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That's a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.
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I love Lancome's L'Absolu Rouge lipstick, as it lasts. Unless you spend the whole night snogging, you won't need to reapply it.
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From compassion springs humility. The ego is verily a gateway to hell. The person who is egoistic is far from being religious.
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I'm fine, except, you know, I broke my pelvis. And that's not much fun.
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When you're used to being in the public eye, if you've got a disease, you've got to own up to it. It's about being about it, not running from it.
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Like I said, everybody has got something they have to deal with health-wise, and everybody's human. I should look after myself better, but so should everybody, right?
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I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets.
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Gena Rowlands is my all-time love. Nicole Kidman, Michelle Pfeiffer. I grew up watching their work; they are extraordinary.
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The aim of my life is the overthrow of monarchy.
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What I'm not about is exploiting women.
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For each project I do, I try to surprise myself, do the unexpected, and change my own status quo. From the One Laptop Per Child, the Herman Miller Sayl, or the latest Movado watch collection, there is always an insecurity about being able to do something important. I think each of those projects makes me feel like we have progressed.
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I have thousands and thousands of hats. Some are the most outrageous hats in the world. They are my disguise. I hide beneath them.
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They put it on the page because it sounded good or it looked good or they read it in a book somewhere that this is how you structure a script or something, and they just don't get it. It's surprising.
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You don't have love without sacrifice; you can't have sacrifice without love.
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I always kind of did my own thing, but it got me into trouble a lot, so I started listening to what people were telling me to do to show I was a team player.
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Once I tune in to the fact that my family receives my cooking for them as an act of love - that it's actually something that makes them feel cared for - it shifts my entire perspective.
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Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible to feelings as to sight?
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Needless to say, innumerable challenges exist in all areas of governance, and much more needs to be done to help the Afghan government assume full responsibility for addressing the concerns of ordinary Afghan citizens.
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When I am in Africa, I realize I don't know much, have not seen much, and there's a lot to be done.
