Henry Rollins Quotes

To see change in your own area code is very powerful. There's a little orphanage down the street from my company, and we donate $1 from the sale of each CD we sell to the orphanage.

Henry Rollins

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ChangePowerfulDownStreetSeeOwn

When I was a kid I didn't know what I wanted to be when I grew up, but I did know what I didn't want to do. I didn't want to grow up, have 2.2 kids, get married, the whole white picket fence thing.

Jody Williams

GrowFenceWhiteKnowWantKid

My children, who are almost two: watching them develop has made me pay much closer attention to how we become who we are.

Amy Waldman

ChildrenMeAttentionBecomePay

Inside a company, you can mandate that everyone use the same technology, which means you can go a little bit, I don't know, higher-fidelity than the lowest-common-denominator technology. There are a lot of things that Slack gives you that email doesn't when you think about internal use.

Stewart Butterfield

TechnologyThinkYouGoKnowInside

How can a song all about struggling with the afterglow of fame thrust someone into fame? How can a lyric like, 'I'm just a singer who already blew his shot,' give a singer another shot? I don't know... but it's funny.

Mike Posner

FunnySongSomeoneKnowFameSinger

There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses.

Louis Aragon

FlowersStrangeReasonErrorSenses

It's hard for me to think of writing a novel, because it takes so long.

Jonathan Ames

MeWritingThinkLongHardBecause

Out all of these zillions of letters, one of the first ones that came was, as it turned out from Johnny Carson within the last five or six weeks of his life. I had worked with him. He lost a son who had worked for me.

Dick Ebersol

LifeSonMeLostLettersFirst

I was really bored, pretty antisocial, and not much of a joiner, and people thought that was a problem. I hated high school. In a way, it was good... I think, for a writer, it's good to be comfortable with being on the outside.

Deborah Ellis

GoodSchoolPeopleThinkThought

You have to have people who prick the consciences of the nation.

Coretta Scott King

PeopleYouNationWho

The column's worked out great for me. I've gotten a ton of ego satisfaction, had a lot of fun, won a batch of prizes and occasionally done some public good.

Allan Sloan

GoodGreatFunMeEgoSatisfaction

I like Las Vegas because it kind of gives me a chance to gauge my material in front of a very diverse group of people. There are a lot of different people in the audience, and you can kind of get a barometer for how your material plays throughout the country.

Sebastian Maniscalco

PeopleMeChanceVegasYouCountry

You're never as ready as you think you are. You're never as ready as you need to be.

Tim Griffin

ThinkYouReadyNeverNeed

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