Henry Rollins Quotes

I'm not a young man, and I can find intensity in a lot of different ways, sometimes without even raising my voice. When I was younger, it was all about how I need three extra sets of lungs to get enough wind to get out the thing at the screaming level I need to, because that's the way it needs to be. Now, I see that there's a whole lot of other colors on the palette.

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• I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.

  

  Oren Peli
  • Learning
  • Challenge
  • Luck

• I learned that despite having years and years of experience in math and computer science and so on, I didn't really know how to code until I formed a company.

  

  Balaji Srinivasan
  • Experience
  • Science
  • Know

• But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Think
  • Beginning
  • Process

• The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.

  

  Edsger Dijkstra
  • World
  • Challenges
  • Source

• The Stonewall riots were a key moment for gay people. Throughout modern history, gays had thought of themselves as something like a mental illness or maybe a sin or a crime. Gay liberation allowed us to make the leap to being a 'minority group,' which made life much easier.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • Life
  • History

• Somehow I got the feeling at an early age that I had to do something important with my life.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Life
  • Important
  • Age

• You could argue that 'Sweeney Todd' was romantic, if you looked closely at it, but it didn't impart that to its audiences. But it's large, and it's melodramatic, and it's a style I like to work in periodically.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Work
  • Style
  • Romantic

• As you learn who you are, you can better surround yourself with friends who make you a better person, and that sometimes only happens when you disassemble old relationships.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Friends
  • Surround Yourself

• I love all the attention, people noticing me. 'There's the gymnast. There she is!'

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • People
  • Attention
  • Noticing

• It seems to me that more and more we've come to expect less and less from each other, and I think that should change.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Think
  • Change
  • Me

• Usually, when inspiration strikes late, the light of day reveals that I haven't gotten an idea for a book so much as a psychiatric case study.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Book
  • Light
  • Day

• I fell in love with Rwanda the moment I saw those verdant, rolling hills rise up beneath the wings of the plane as we descended toward Kigali airport.

  

  Naomi Benaron
  • Moment
  • Wings
  • Plane

• The Breton peasant is said to have a hard head. He is obstinate and resists outside pressure to alter his creed or his customs.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Said
  • Pressure
  • Outside

• I have a couture body.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Body

• We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • Up
  • Live
  • History

• I've been in therapy. I know enough about myself now to know that I really don't need to know anymore.

  

  Larry David
  • Know
  • Myself
  • Now

• My father died the year I was elected to Congress: 1987.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Father
  • Year
  • Congress

• Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • May
  • Kind
  • Religion

• I want to make as much money as I possibly can so that when my day comes, my mother and sister is fine. My close friends are fine. They don't have to worry about anything ever again.

  

  Tyler, The Creator
  • Money
  • Friends
  • Mother

• I'm a workaholic. I would not pretend to be anything else. I rarely go to bed before one o'clock in the morning. I might kind of have a spa between half-past twelve and one and relax, and that's when I do my thinking, or my non-thinking. That's when I have a bit of space for myself.

  

  Joan Kirner
  • Thinking
  • Past
  • Space

• In Germany I have been acknowledged again since the fall of Hitler, but my works, partly suppressed by the Nazis and partly destroyed by the war; have not yet been republished there.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Destroyed
  • Hitler
  • Acknowledged

• The charge of being ambiguous and indefinite may be brought against every human composition, and necessarily arises from the imperfection of language. Perhaps no two men will express the same sentiment in the same manner and by the same words; neither do they connect precisely the same ideas with the same words.

  

  Oliver Ellsworth
  • Men
  • May
  • Words

• Some people can work on the road, and that's incredibly impressive... maybe I'm not working myself hard enough.

  

  Rex Orange County
  • People
  • Enough
  • Impressive

• I'm not a young man, and I can find intensity in a lot of different ways, sometimes without even raising my voice. When I was younger, it was all about how I need three extra sets of lungs to get enough wind to get out the thing at the screaming level I need to, because that's the way it needs to be. Now, I see that there's a whole lot of other colors on the palette.

  

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