Henry Rollins Quotes
This is my own little rock theory: In my mind, Nirvana slayed the hair bands. They shot the top off the poodles.
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There are hundreds of people running around with great voices. If they would study and develop them they could become great singers.
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Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.
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Speech happens to not be his language.
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Kids are taking music for free all the time. They have Spotify, Pandora... The record companies aren't making the kind of music that they used to make. Artists make their money on tours, not from album sales.
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I'm getting married because I'm in love with a girl and want to spend my life with her. You can't live your life doing what other people want you to or you'll be miserable. At some point you just have to be yourself.
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We want to allow Costa Ricans to make a qualitative leap in our development and go to an economy based on innovation and developing a broadband infrastructure in order to overcome the barrier of 15 per cent penetration.
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I leave my house all the time! But I'm not at all the Hollywood parties. I'm grown, and where else am I supposed to be? I'm supposed to be home.
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I don't know how I got out of some of the scrapes I was in. But I know that there's some sort of plan.
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Like so many poor Ilokanos, my grandparents left their village, for it could no longer sustain them. The Ilocos is a narrow coastal plain where, so often, the mountain drops to the sea. Land hunger had always afflicted the Ilokanos and made them migratory.
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Let's be honest: discrimination against Arabs exists in Israel.
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There are some musicians who are talented and see themselves as some kind of natural geniuses or something because of a certain amount of natural ability. But that is often rarely the case over the long term.
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I've always been fascinated by young women who come to New York. The characters in 'Lipstick Jungle' were once young women who came to New York and we see their early experiences through flashbacks.
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It wasn't easy getting 'GoodFellas' started.
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Some struggle is healthy. If you can embrace it rather than be angry, you can use it as your pilot light.
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I'm a geek through and through. My last job at Microsoft was leading much of the search engine relevance work on Bing. There we got to play with huge amounts of data, with neural networks and other AI techniques, with massive server farms.
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Basketball's eras are defined by teams - Celtics, Lakers, Bulls - and baseball's epochs are defined by players - Ruth, Robinson, Mantle - but with football, it's the sideline strategists, the nutty professors and top coated Lears.
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Giving children a fair chance to achieve their dreams and reach their potential is everyone's responsibility.
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Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.
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A lot of these American actors have this - in my view - misplaced view that they have to look like Action Man. The trouble is, they all run the risk of being interchangeable.
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Arthur Miller wouldn't have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde.
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One of the rules of the road is that if you want to create the sense of silence, it frequently has more pungency if you include the tiniest of sounds. By manipulating what you hear and how you hear it and what other things you don't hear, you can not only help tell the story, you can help the audience get into the mind of the character.
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For 10 years, I had a band called Steel Train. We made three albums. We toured like crazy.
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I have never been particularly picky when it comes to what I'm putting in my hair. Most of it is just the genes I'm so fortunate to have inherited from my parents.
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This is my own little rock theory: In my mind, Nirvana slayed the hair bands. They shot the top off the poodles.
