Henry Rollins Quotes
I am primarily a loner. I don't go to clubs. I don't hang out with people. I don't know many people. It's just the way it ended up. It's not a sob story; it's fine for me.
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J. J. Abrams is a director that I've admired for a long time, from the very first scripts he wrote - including 'Regarding Henry,' which I was in.
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We are the only country in the world that has taken people from so many different backgrounds, which is a great achievement by itself, but an even greater achievement is that we have turned all of that variety and diversity into unity.
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Since I never get on a scale, I have no idea how much weight I've lost!
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I like when everything's naturally moving along - I find that pretty exciting.
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I walk around talking to myself in accents. Usually people look at me like I'm a complete fruit loop.
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The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention.
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Be who you are and be that well.
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The vast majority of Muslims living here are peaceful citizens. Unfortunately, however, we also see religious and political fanaticism among Muslim groups in Germany.
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There's always a version of me who is the narrator. And I make myself look better than other people.
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I've got great people who handle my schedule, and everything does revolve around the children. If there's a parents' night or an Easter bonnet parade or a Nativity play, whatever it might be, then I plan everything around that.
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It is often suggested that the A.N.C. is controlled by the Communist Party, by Communists. Well, I have been long enough in the A.N.C. to know that that has never been true.
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If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.
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My parents used to talk about Sergio Leone films a lot. And I got really into them. I love Clint Eastwood. I love the camera angles. I love the music.
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I wanted to write a sci-fi story that would appeal to young women. Loads of girls like sci-fi, but it's more culturally associated with guys.
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When women work together, it's a bond unlike any other.
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The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle.
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I have been taking my daily walk round the island, and visited the sugar mill and the threshing mill again.
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You're an artist when you're writing, a businessperson the rest of the time.
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When I was 11, I knew that I wanted to write a kid's book and tell the world what it was like being deaf.
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Tridents (sic) are not weapons of mass destruction.
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I try to give my best to everything I do. I don't think of housework as beneath my dignity; that's just the way I was brought up.
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I don't believe that there are aliens. I believe there are really different people.
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I love Turkey. I first traveled there in my early twenties, when I was obsessed by the 1915 Dardanelles campaign. I immediately liked the people - brave, stoical, generous, hospitable and patriotic, if a little inclined to conspiracy theories. I saw Turkey as a model for the region, a successful, Western-oriented Muslim democracy.
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I am primarily a loner. I don't go to clubs. I don't hang out with people. I don't know many people. It's just the way it ended up. It's not a sob story; it's fine for me.
