Henry Rollins Quotes

In the late summer of 1986, the band I had been in for five years stopped playing. Suddenly, I was on my own. This new state of bandlessness was, at first, traumatic. When your group breaks up, a lot of broken parts hit the ground.

Henry Rollins

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The narrator of a documentary often comes in at the last minute and takes some of the glory they don't deserve.

Joel Edgerton

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We're barely scratching the surface of how people experience and utilize p2p payments, despite it being a multi-millennium-old behavior.

Jeremy Allaire

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As a company grows, its purpose grows with it. It has the potential to evolve your purpose.

John Mackey

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Martin Luther King, Jr., would have been the last person to have wanted his iconization and his heroism. He was an enormously guilt-laden man. He was drenched in a sense of shame about his being featured as the preeminent leader of African-American culture and the civil rights movement.

Michael Eric Dyson

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One kind of artist is always striving to annihilate the past, to make the world anew in each new work, and so to triumph over the dead weight of routine. I am the other kind... who only sees his way forward by standing on the shoulders of those who have already cleared the path ahead.

Steven Stucky

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The man who can speak acceptably is usually given credit for an ability out of all proportion to what he really possesses.

Lowell Thomas

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I don't have and have never had an email address. I'm old school. But as far as downloads go, my only objection is I like the sound of CDs better, so I buy those. I think the sound quality is better.

Bob Seger

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The shortest distance between two points is a straight line.

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The Internet is just bringing all kinds of information into the home. There's just a lot of distraction, a lot of competition for the parent's voice to resonate in the children's ears.

Phil McGraw

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When things did go wrong for the IRA, when civilians were killed, I tried to put it in context, not defend it.

Peter T. King

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No words can describe the personal liberation that heading seaward bestows upon me. In this aquatic realm, no man or woman is subject to the petty decrees of social bureaucracy.

Paul Watson

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Everything is always a little surreal.

Paula Abdul

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