Henry Rollins Quotes

I have come to the conclusion that it's a waste of time to have too much pride in anything. Perhaps it's good to have a sense of duty, a jealous zeal to protect or improve, but pride ultimately is only that which stands vulnerable to offense and degradation.

Henry Rollins Black Flag

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• The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement.

  

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• The thing about Drew Goddard and Mike Schur is that they are legit geniuses, and they love storytelling. They love creating worlds, love messing with the audience; they love doing things that we don't expect. To get to be a part of that is too good to be true.

  

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• Many use Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes for daily transactions like going to theatres, malls, and trading purpose. People like these are unnecessarily put to inconvenience.

  

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• My general take on American music since 1969 is that it's just getting stiffer and people are getting more uptight - audience, performance, and palace guard.

  

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• I want to be like Robin Williams, really. It's all the different characters he does, all the different voices.

  

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• I haven't had many relationships.

  

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• Surround yourself with great people. People are what make businesses prosper.

  

  Wayne Huizenga
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• Any competent programmer has an API to cash, payments, escrow, wills, notaries, lotteries, dividends, micropayments, subscriptions, crowdfunding, and more.

  

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• Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles.

  

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• I've grown up on TV, and there were some phases that weren't pretty.

  

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• When I started performing in public, I was probably around 10 or 11.

  

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• It wasn't a deliberate decision to become a poet. It was something I found myself doing - and loving. Language became an addiction.

  

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• My record label always says you shouldn't talk about money because it makes people extremely uncomfortable. Refugees can't talk about money. Rappers can talk about money; refugees can't talk about money.

  

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• The worker's existence is thus brought under the same condition as the existence of every other commodity. The worker has become a commodity, and it is a bit of luck for him if he can find a buyer, And the demand on which the life of the worker depends, depends on the whim of the rich and the capitalists.

  

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• Left to face a hungry winter robbed of their hard-earned harvests, the people experienced their own warrior class not as protectors but ravagers.

  

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• Time is still the great mystery to us. It is no more than a concept; we don't know if it even exists...

  

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• I would like to try harder to establish my thought and philosophy strongly and to go back to the universe with my love.

  

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• There is direct correlation between a society lacking in artistic vision to lack of social conscience, i.e., crime, poverty, and senseless, violent atrocities, materialism.

  

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• Licences to have babies incidentally is something that I got in trouble for some years ago for suggesting even in Canada that this might be necessary at some point, at least some restriction on the right to have a child.

  

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• I think it possible that Marxism was the first attempt, for our time, outside the formal religions, at a world-mind, a world-ethic. It went wrong, could not prevent itself from dividing and subdividing, like all the other religions, into smaller and smaller chapels, sects, and creeds. But it was an attempt.

  

  Doris Lessing
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• I have come to the conclusion that it's a waste of time to have too much pride in anything. Perhaps it's good to have a sense of duty, a jealous zeal to protect or improve, but pride ultimately is only that which stands vulnerable to offense and degradation.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Time
  • Pride
  • Duty