Henry Rollins Quotes
I have no pride about anything I have done. It's just not the way I think about things. I do the work, always, as hard as I can, to the point of pain, injury, exhaustion, if that is what it takes. Once I am done, I move on.
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It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
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I would convert to Judaism if the operation didn't hurt so much.
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I went to Floridita on Wardour Street when I was 18. All I could afford was pumpkin soup and a glass of champagne, but it was worth it.
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I don't think there's a perfect time to have kids. I think first you have to find the perfect person.
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You really get the most out of sweet corn if you pick the corn off the stalk and rush it to a pot of boiling water. The longer you wait, the more sugar you lose. But if you get it in the first half hour, that is the sweetest corn ever.
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You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.
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Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar.
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I'm from New York. My grandparents were settlers of Long Island City. When they came here, there was no bridge, and they had to hire a boat across the river. They had a farm, and my grandmother had to go once a week to Manhattan to buy provisions - very primitive.
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I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.
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The systematic dismantling of reproductive rights, much like the takedown of collective bargaining, has been taking place in full view.
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In the calculus of western interests, there is no suffering, whatever its scale, which cannot be justified. Chechens, Palestinians, Iraqis, Afghans, Pakistanis are of little importance.
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Egyptian comedy has a very, very old tradition. Our theater and our movies are just, like, amazing. And Egypt is kind of like the Hollywood of the Middle East. I mean, we had cinema maybe decades before the other Arab countries ever got independence.
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I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.
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The things I wanted to do from a very early age - ie. get married and have children - precluded a lot of guys my own age from wanting to have anything to do with me.
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Modeling is a job. Even my mum doesn't believe that I do work hard.
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I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.
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If you lined up 10 writers and asked them to write a movie about Steve Jobs, you'd get 10 very different movies.
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Not just cricket, we are doing clothing for football, hockey etc. It's basic stuff, but good designing is what I am looking to do.
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It makes me proud to help girls realize that they don't have to change who they are.
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I have always criticised violence in my speeches but the way the trouble in just two per cent of the area is blown up and used against us should be countered. Arundhati Roy paints Gujaratis as rapists and then goes scot-free by apologising. Isn't it an insult to Gujarat?
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I was a pedantic child. I'd get really annoyed at the logic of small things that don't bother anyone else.
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Render more service than you are paid for and eventually you will be paid more for less services rendered.
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I have no pride about anything I have done. It's just not the way I think about things. I do the work, always, as hard as I can, to the point of pain, injury, exhaustion, if that is what it takes. Once I am done, I move on.
