Henry Rollins Quotes

I don't really have any women in my life, actually those two - the women in my life are two married women who work at my office.

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• One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.

  

  Nathalie Sarraute
  • People
  • Poetry
  • Poet

• I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Love
  • Smell
  • Gardening

• I'm definitely a guitar player, but it's the last thing I listen to in a song, after the singer and the drums.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Song
  • Player
  • Guitar

• We're here for a little, little bit of time, and I just wanna make the most out of it.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Time
  • Just
  • Most

• We ignore our feelings a lot, I realize. Many of us have to... until they really bite us in the butt.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Feelings
  • Ignore
  • Realize

• He's really sort of the devil. He's completely emotionally detached. He has no empathy. You find that in psychopaths. It's about power with Voldemort. It's an aphrodisiac for him. Power makes him feel alive.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Power
  • Devil
  • Empathy

• I need to be very isolated to write, and unfortunately isolation is often quite difficult to find. My ideal writing environment would be a country house hotel in the middle of nowhere, with full room service.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Writing
  • Country
  • House

• You're never going to hear me say, 'Well, I've been critical of Obama five times, so now I need to be critical of McCain five times.' That is a false equivalence, and that's what I think is wrong with journalism.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Think
  • Me
  • Journalism

• I don't have time to be depressed.

  

  Pat Nixon
  • Time
  • Depressed

• I love meeting fans. They're always fun, they always have good things to say, smart questions to ask, and plenty of ideas for me to explore in the future.

  

  Tamora Pierce
  • Good
  • Love
  • Fun

• The relationship between France and its 'foreign' players - blacks and North African Arabs - has always been troubled, particularly with Algerians.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Relationship
  • Always
  • France

• You're always going to be more judgmental about your own performance than anyone else.

  

  Ioan Gruffudd
  • You
  • Always
  • Performance

• When they talk to me, people say, 'I didn't expect you to be how you are.'

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • People
  • Talk
  • Expect

• If you are a genius, you'll make your own rules, but if not - and the odds are against it - go to your desk no matter what your mood, face the icy challenge of the paper - write.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Challenge
  • Genius
  • Mood

• We must get rid of fossil fuels by developing injection systems for automobiles, which can run on bio-fuel.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Run
  • Systems
  • Fossil Fuels

• I haven't read a lot of Westerns. But I wrote a Western. The influences were all cinematic.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Lot
  • Western
  • Influences

• Boxing is what pays my bills.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Boxing
  • Bills
  • Pays

• I have very high standards for every part of life - my work, my relationships, food, love. I can't just pretend.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Life
  • Work
  • Food

• All that we can't say is all we need to hear.

  

  Ben Harper
  • Need
  • Say
  • Hear

• We always get up about 5:30, and George gets up and goes in and gets the coffee and brings it to me, and that's been our ritual since we got married. And we read the newspapers in bed and drink coffee for about an hour probably, read our briefing papers.

  

  Laura Bush
  • Coffee
  • Married
  • Ritual

• The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.

  

  Tacitus
  • History
  • Words
  • Fear

• I don't really have any women in my life, actually those two - the women in my life are two married women who work at my office.

  

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  • Married
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