Henry Rollins Quotes

For many years, I tried to make New Year's resolutions. I made lists and shot for great heights: I would show altruism and exert moral strength, patience and all those other great attributes.

Henry Rollins

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StrengthPatienceGreatYearMoral

There's great affection, tremendous loyalty, but anytime you open up the season, when you walk in the locker room, there is a circle, and my obligation to everyone in that locker room is the circle has to be as strong as possible to give us a chance to win.

Jim Irsay

LoyaltyGreatWalkWinChanceYou

Artschwager's art always involves looking closely at surfaces, questions what an object is, wants to make you forget the name of the thing you're looking at so that it might mushroom in your mind into something that triggers unexpected infinities.

Jerry Saltz

ArtMindLookingNameQuestionsYou

Studios are often very nervous of things they don't recognize, by which I mean things that haven't been done before, and therefore, they take a really original idea, and they recognize the originality, and then they try and make it look like something they recognize. So they try to turn it into something far more procedural.

Joe Wright

LookDoneNervousTryMoreMean

No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does.

Anita Brookner

TruthBlameTelling The TruthTelling

There are a lot of human-created systems that we like to tout as being logical that are actually riddled with illogic. And then, on the other hand, we have all these natural systems that are not conscious, but they are logical, and they work really well.

Jeff Vandermeer

WorkHandNaturalBeingWellLike

In my own case, my folks didn't actually object to comics, as many parents did, but they pretty much felt the things were a waste of time.

Michael Dirda

TimeParentsMy OwnOwnPretty

Everybody cheats on the Kardashians.

Tony Rock

EverybodyCheats

Fighter, father, husband - it's all the same person. I know the UFC stereotype is that we're all thugs. But I'd like people to know that I don't have to switch one off to try to be another. Being a father and a fighter, it's who I am.

Robert Whittaker

FatherI AmPeopleHusbandPerson

Travelers never think that they are the foreigners.

Mason Cooley

TravelThinkNeverTravelers

Back then, the excise tax was designed to be a luxury tax for people who owned telephones.

Mike Fitzpatrick

PeopleLuxuryBackTaxWhoThen

Where do we say that a cell became a blade of grass, which became a starfish, which became a cat, which became a donkey, which became a human being? There's a real lack of evidence from change from actual species to a different type of species.

Michele Bachmann

ChangeSayGrassHumanRealCat

It isn't as if a writer merely records life as it unfurls. Reality does not automatically transcribe as literature; real people are not shapely, compelling characters to be harvested. Charming facts and sharp observations rarely slide seamlessly into whatever narrative is at hand.

Michelle Huneven

LifePeopleFactsRealityLiterature

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