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Great Quotes by Henry Rollins
- It wasn't until my late twenties that I learned that by working out I had given myself a great gift. I learned that nothing good…
- Want a good body? Work at it. Want to be a success? Work at it. Want to be truly exceptional? Be a touch insane... You…
- You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.
- I've made some great mistakes in my life, but, you know, they were honest mistakes.
- Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people…
- I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things.
- Every year, August lashes out in volcanic fury, rising with the din of morning traffic, its great metallic wings smashing against the ground, heating the…
- I do my best to limit the amount of compromise in my life so I have more time to do what I want. Not hanging…
- Most of the time when I have met artists who have meant a lot to me, the experience has been well above expectation. People like…
- Why let your fury lay deep inside you, sullenly boiling your blood into silent steam and griding your bones to dust? I it not better…
- A great way to learn about your country is to leave it.
- In many ways, America is on the receiving end of a pendulum that has been swung with great force, and for a long time, outward…
- I always start tours with a great deal of anticipation.
- The Bad Seeds are a band I will travel a great distance to see whenever possible.
- Michele Bachmann is always a great person to go to for an opinion about anything. She has a very active and interesting mind.
- I think, to a great degree, we humans still divide ourselves into two species, even though we are monotypic. There are males and females. We…
- Life is weird, great and dangerous.
- The Ruts were a great punk rock band from England whose songs were as excellent as their time together was short.
- Jazz music is as American as it gets, and so is the U.S. Postal Service. A Miles Davis stamp is a perfect marriage of two…
- Youths write me and tell me that their band will go nowhere because of all the bad bands in the world. I tell them there…
- I once asked Ozzy Osbourne, truly one of my favorite people in the world, if he was cool with singing Black Sabbath songs year after…
- Music files and downloading have indeed changed the currency of music to a great degree.
- Whenever any great song or album gets lost in the ether, someone is deprived of the joy of hearing it, and the great effort of…
- Now and then, someone is able to look at an empty space, conclude it would be a great place to start a revolution, and bravely…
- If the death of Osama Bin Laden brings any peace to those who lost loved ones on that awful day in September 2001, that is…
More Great Quotes
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
- There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. — Aristotle
- A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- I don't miss anything ever. Because to me, missing something is like going backward a little bit. I don't miss being in… — Fred Armisen
- My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great… — Karen Armstrong
- Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which have preoccupied… — Karen Armstrong
- Nobody needs to cry for me. I'm going to be great. — Lance Armstrong
- All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in… — Neil Armstrong