Henry Rollins Quotes
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I'm an actor; I want to play roles, not a role.
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I'm a collaborator. I know I don't know everything. I don't want to know everything.
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I've always been like this - insecure - because I'm striving for something that can't be attained. I don't just want to be OK at this: I want to be the best at it, and I've never achieved that in my mind.
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I pride myself on not being run of the mill. I don't want to be your umpteenth Fantine in 'Les Miz.'
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I never let anything stop me from doing what I want to do.
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Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being.
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My favorite animal is a polar bear. They're going extinct, and I really don't want that to happen.
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I feel nothing can push you till the time you want to get pushed.
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Writers write for one reason: to create an emotion in the reader, to reach across and make them feel something. You want a reaction. Yeah, it's nicer when the reaction is to throw flowers than it is to throw brickbats, but you have to accept both equally.
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Federal prosecutors want to indict Julian Assange for making public a great many classified documents.
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I want to be my own person.
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I got very addicted to performing. I just want to do that more.
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I have a tweet that said, 'I want to be a Calvin Klein model,' and that was in 2011. And then I modeled for Calvin Klein. And then I had a tweet like, 'I wonder what it's like to be in front of thousands of fans,' and I've been in front of thousands of fans.
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When you leave, you basically want to go eat, because I talk a lot about food in my act. So when you leave, you leave hungry.
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I don't want to worry about maintaining an air of decorum that's not natural to me.
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Well, actually, I manage a couple of stock portfolios or funds or whatever you want to call 'em, and I think I've done relatively well with them.
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I want a platform that, like a book or a magazine, I can carry into the bath or leave at the beach.
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As a storyteller, when you're writing a movie and when you're directing, you want to keep people entertained. That's the whole point, right? It has to be entertaining.
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Books can capture injustices in a way that stays with you and makes you want to do something about them. That's why they are so powerful.
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Trees are Earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
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When people say, 'You have Alzheimer's,' you have no idea what Alzheimer's is. You know it's not good. You know there's no light at the end of the tunnel. That's the only way you can go. But you really don't know anything about it. And you don't know what to expect.
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Stop spending money you don't have.
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Looking back at all the people I have insulted, I am mildly surprised that I am still allowed to exist.
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I get tired of talking when I want to be silent.
