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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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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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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The obstacle for us is not Islam, but the bureaucrats in Brussels.
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If there wasn't no fight, there wasn't no weekend.
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Philosophers are moral, and poets are picturesque about the country.
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All we are, all we can be, are the stories we tell," he says, and he is talking as if he is talking only to me. "Long after we are gone, our words will be all that is left, and who is to say what really happened or even what reality is? Our stories, our fiction, our words will be as close to truth as can be. And no one can take that away from you.
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Our goal should be to cool the planet in ways that reinforce and restore the resilience of its natural systems.
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We should get rid of the SAT as fast as we can. Look, there are bigger problems in society. This is not the biggest problem we have. But it's so easy to get rid of it. Right? Just pull the plug.
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Reflect upon your present blessings.
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Knowledge without mileage equals bullshit.
