Henry Rollins Quotes
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There's a tendency among some male writers to make the women in their stories weak and needing of rescue so that their hero looks like a manly man.
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I'm an actor.
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I look three to five years ahead, not 10 years behind.
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Being exposed to different production environments in Korea, Japan and the U.S. was a great experience, and each system allows you to quench your thirst in a different way.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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I'm sure back in the Greek days or the Roman Empire days, when guys fought in arenas and were fighting lions, people were talking smack. Every era in history has someone talking smack. No way you can have talent and not proclaim your victory.
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I love a woman who can out-eat me.
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Go outside! I mean, even leaves from a park are beautiful in a clear glass vase. I'd rather see that than fake anything any day.
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I am always surprised people are surprised that people haven't read things.
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The older I get, the more I appreciate my rural childhood. I spent a lot of time outdoors, unsupervised, which is a blessing.
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Just as judges have enormous stake in the appointment of judicial officers in the higher judiciary, the government has an equal stake. Since both of us have stakes in the appointment of members of the higher judiciary, the consultation of both of them is absolutely necessary. The government must have a say.
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Cover the canvas at the first go, then work at it until you see nothing more to add.
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We live in a world where it's difficult to be a woman who is strong and confident, so I like to surround myself with friends that embody that same principle and idea.
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To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?
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The novel is a seduction; a reader has to be seduced.
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We're in conversations with brands worldwide for a variety of artists every day.
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Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.
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I want everyone to live to their full potential without having to fear someone will try to knock them down or discriminate against them.
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There is something evocative about the idea of destruction. This act of destruction is the expression of an idea... that what we call reality is not real at all. When I draw a head, for example, I immediately feel an urge to destroy it, to erase it, because the drawing only captures an outward appearance, and for me the vital issue is what lies behind the visual form of the head.
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Arrested Development opened a lot of doors for me.
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The toughest thing about being a celebrity, I suppose, is being polite when I don't want to be.
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My urgent advice to you would be, not only always to think first of America, but always, also, to think first of humanity. You do not love humanity if you seek to divide humanity into jealous camps. Humanity can be welded together only by love, by sympathy, by justice, not by jealousy and hatred. I am sorry for the man who seeks to make personal capital out of the passions of his fellowmen. He has lost touch with the ideal of America. For America was created to unit mankind.
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In 1959 the University recognized our work by appointing me to a new Chair of Radio Astronomy.
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Knowledge without mileage equals bullshit.
