Henry Rollins Quotes
Entertainment's hard on the ego. I see why actors are so psycho now. Because there's so much 'we don't want you' going on in acting. Even big people get rejected but the smaller people - they really get rejected. Trust me - I know.
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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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It was not about losing my mental power; it's about not feeling good about my contribution to the game.
Garry Kasparov -
The whole fame question is one that is constantly intriguing to me. I think that fame is something that other people create about you. Whether you jump into that or not is up to you – and whether you have the talents for jumping into it or not.
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I open the doors for everybody all the time.
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Actors don't have real value.
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Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.
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If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything.
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I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. I'd love to do a box-office hit.
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It's great living with your best friends.
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People have a right to violence, to rebel, to fight back.
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I used to be more self-conscious about style because when you're younger, you want to exist, you want to show everything you do.
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I've been on a state of high alert since high school. I didn't need 9/11 to remind me that we live on a ball of flame.
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I was lucky to have a successful career as a model, but that was just a way to pay off my college loans.
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These days, many people are unwilling to see their dog as an animal. Let's face it: they are cute, but they will bite. Not only do I look at dogs as animals, I look at myself as an animal, which explains why, since I got my permit, I drive with my head out the window.
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Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.
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I have written about the dispossessed, immigrants, the condition of women who do not enjoy the same legal rights as men, the Palestinians who are deprived of their land and condemned to exile.
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Most people who go to Rajasthan go to Udaipur, Jodhpur or Jaipur.
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After Mason was born, I'd feel guilty doing anything that wasn't related to work.
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I really enjoy theater. I just went to see 'Death of a Salesman,' and it knocked me on my ass.
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The rich and the well-born, according to the Federalist Papers, was greatly feared by the founders.
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As soon as we see our dreams betrayed we realize that the intensest joys of our life have nothing to do with reality, and we are consumed with regret for the time when they glowed within us. And in this succession of hopes and regrets our life slips by.
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From the beginning of physics, there have been those who imagined they would be the last generation to face the unknown. Physics has always seemed to its practitioners to be almost complete. This complacency is shattered only during revolutions, when honest people are forced to admit that they don't know the basics.
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Entertainment's hard on the ego. I see why actors are so psycho now. Because there's so much 'we don't want you' going on in acting. Even big people get rejected but the smaller people - they really get rejected. Trust me - I know.
