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 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.
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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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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.
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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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Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.
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I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activity is a theatrical one. When you give a lesson the situation is the same as writing a book. You have to capture the attention, the complicity of your audience.
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There's something about a sign-off that seems predictable. I just say whatever comes to my mind, to the pleasure and horror of the control room, I'm sure.
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I was gonna go broke if I didn't get things turned around real fast.
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I don't mind reminding people it's a movie, or that you're telling a story. Everybody knows this, but for some reason, we want to be real. I don't get it, I like the fakeness of my craft. I don't think the audience minds-they all know we're making a movie.
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I'm just shallow and self-interested, and don't get out much because I'm afraid of real commitments.
