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.
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Produce great men, the rest follows.
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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.
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There's nothing wrong with being anthropomorphic. That's how we understand the world.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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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.
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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.
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The greatest responsibility of the planner and architect, I believe, is the protection and development of our habitat.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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I didn't just get to 75 years by tiptoeing. I had to work hard sometimes.
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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.
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I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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If a man is terrified, it's up to me to dispel that terror.
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In trying to scramble out of a hole, it sometimes digs it deeper.
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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.
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In Westerns you were permitted to kiss your horse but never your girl.
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One of the strengths of Adani is that, because we are controlling mines, ships, ports and logistics, we are the cheapest solution provider for end users.
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The greedy man is he who habitually eats too much, knowing that he is injuring his bodily health thereby, and this is a vice to which not the gourmet but the gourmand is a slave.
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The thought of dancing scared me. A lot. Because I have absolutely no aptitude for it.
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I'm like half Brazilian and half American now.
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I go from being in front of 2,000 people, shot-gunning beers on stage and acting like a complete idiot, to being in a Mommy and Me class, waving a little pink handkerchief around 12 hours later!
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Then I discovered I loved writing poetry more than fiction.
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If you set out to do something and you give it your all and it doesn't work out, be willing to modify your goal slightly. Have the ability to look in another direction. A small shift could guide you to the real purposes of your life.
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I'm just shallow and self-interested, and don't get out much because I'm afraid of real commitments.
