Henry Rollins Quotes

I'm just shallow and self-interested, and don't get out much because I'm afraid of real commitments.

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• For my film 'Fashion,' like an investigative journalist, I went about knowing the people, the models, the fashion designers. Similarly with the corporate world.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • People
  • World
  • Fashion

• Produce great men, the rest follows.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Great
  • Men
  • Rest

• You know when you're 14 and terrified to talk to a girl? I didn't suffer much from that. It seemed very natural to me to talk to girls.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Girl
  • Know
  • Me

• There's nothing wrong with being anthropomorphic. That's how we understand the world.

  

  Natalie Jeremijenko
  • World
  • Understand
  • Nothing

• I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Years
  • Old
  • Two

• The typical workday, particularly in startup mode, is from nine to six or nine to seven, then you take a two-hour break to work out and eat dinner. By that time, you're relaxed, and then you work until midnight or one A.M. If there was no break with physical activity, you'd be more tired and less alert.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • Time
  • Work
  • Tired

• The world gets older, without getting either better or worse and so does literature. But I do think that the drab current phenomenon that passes for literary studies in the university will finally provide its own corrective.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • World
  • Literature
  • Better

• The biggest rival I had in my career was me. I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Career
  • Control
  • Person

• The greatest responsibility of the planner and architect, I believe, is the protection and development of our habitat.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Believe
  • Responsibility

• Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Man
  • Animal
  • Legislature

• I didn't just get to 75 years by tiptoeing. I had to work hard sometimes.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Work
  • Sometimes
  • Work Hard

• American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Up
  • Business
  • American

• I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Why
  • Me
  • Democracy

• If a man is terrified, it's up to me to dispel that terror.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Up
  • Man
  • Me

• In trying to scramble out of a hole, it sometimes digs it deeper.

  

  Wellington Mara
  • Trying
  • Sometimes
  • Hole

• I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who they're talking to. I have a lot of common experiences.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Experience
  • Know
  • Control

• If you're writing a scene for a character with whom you disagree in every way, you still need to show how that character is absolutely justified in his or her own mind, or the scene will come across as being about the author's views rather than about the character's.

  

  Tana French
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Character

• In Westerns you were permitted to kiss your horse but never your girl.

  

  Gary Cooper
  • Girl
  • Horse
  • Kiss

• Back in the day, I used to get really upset when people used to say that I didn't really make all my own things - like my art or my videos or whatever. I work really hard on everything, so it used to upset me when people would try to discredit me or say that I wouldn't have what I had without this person or that person.

  

  Kali Uchis
  • People
  • Work
  • Art

• As the ego cogito, subjectivity is the consciousness that represents something, relates this representation back to itself, and so gathers with itself.

  

  Martin Heidegger
  • Ego

• Food plays a large part in our weekend, but on a Friday evening, I'll make us something simple for tea. I might have a wee glass of wine.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Food
  • Simple
  • Wine

• I think art is more glorious than life but not more real.

  

  Daniel Breaker
  • Life
  • Real
  • Art

• Even though I'm usually not conscious of it, I think drawing has always served a sort of therapeutic purpose in my life. There's something about the process of translating the messy chaos of real life into a clean, simple drawing that's always been comforting to me.

  

  Adrian Tomine
  • Life
  • Real
  • Simple

• I'm just shallow and self-interested, and don't get out much because I'm afraid of real commitments.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Real
  • Commitment
  • Shallow