Henry Rollins Quotes
It's hard to keep your backbone straight in America. It's easy to turn into that which you hate, and to get smashed.Henry Rollins Black Flag
Quotes to Explore
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
Warren Weaver -
Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.
Hannah Arendt -
When I went to Juventus, I was young, but in training, I had legends like Fabio Cannavaro and Lilian Thuram marking me. I had to work hard to get my respect.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic -
I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.
Salman Rushdie -
My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
Patrick Schwarzenegger -
Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I consider myself a student of many religions. The more I learn, the more questions I have. For me, the spiritual quest will be a life-long work in progress.
Dan Brown -
You remember Donnie Brasco? It's the most notorious undercover movie ever; it's so street and so real. If you ever imagined yourself doing cop work, you imagined yourself getting pushed to that limit - seeing the furthest you can push yourself while still upholding the law.
Manny Montana -
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
Carl Sagan -
I came into this league by myself, and I'll leave by myself.
Malik Jackson -
I love 'First Wives Club' and 'Death Becomes Her' and movies about women like that.
Tavi Gevinson -
If you want to see me cry, just come to a photo shoot.
Fiona Apple
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Lee Ann Womack is from near where I grew up in East Texas, so I've always looked up to her. I sang a lot of Dolly Parton as a kid and a lot of traditional western swing, like Patsy Cline and Roy Rogers.
Kacey Musgraves -
Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa-Lobos?
Igor Stravinsky -
Americans wanted to settle all our difficulties with Russia and then go to the movies and drink Coke.
W. Averell Harriman -
I think as I've gotten older, I've learned to look at life and take every day as it comes.
Vanessa Minnillo -
An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.
V. S. Naipaul -
Americans have so far put up with inequality because they felt they could change their status. They didn't mind others being rich, as long as they had a path to move up as well. The American Dream is all about social mobility in a sense - the idea that anyone can make it.
Fareed Zakaria
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Challenge yourself, its fine not to be a totally finished person.
Leigh Steinberg -
No hero is mortal till he dies.
W. H. Auden -
People don't trust conglomerates; they trust individuals. Network marketing brings trust and the quality of the relationship to the center of the business. And it enables you to expand indefinitely, simply by expanding the number of relationships.
Brian Tracy -
I never got too specialized but did like the Southern Gothic writers like William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor.
Mat Kearney -
For sure it's better to have a coach. I won't lie to you. It's better to have someone to help you. I need it, you know. But as I say all the time, it's not easy to feel someone. That person has to be - has to be, for me, like good, first of all, but has to be hard and also understand my personality.
Gael Monfils -
It's hard to keep your backbone straight in America. It's easy to turn into that which you hate, and to get smashed.
Henry Rollins Black Flag