Henry Rollins Quotes
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Some reporter called me 'the angriest gay man in the world' or some such. Well, it stuck, but I realized it was very useful.
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There are just so many young designers now.
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The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.
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I never said I don't like gay people.
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There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh.
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With technology now, you can go in and sing a song, and for $100,000, you will sound flawless.
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The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.
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I got the travel bug when I was quite young. My parents took me and my sisters out of school and we travelled all over Europe. It was an eye-opening experience and, although I love Norway, I also enjoy visiting new countries. I don't get homesick.
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I really like the power of stopping the laughter and turning it to horror.
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Having a baby had always seemed the easiest and most natural thing to do, and I had never felt - even in my most furtive days of coming out - that being gay would mean I could not become a mother.
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I was always falling in love at a very young age - kindergarten is when I can remember. There was always a crush. And when I was in sixth grade, I started picking up guitar, so I started wanting to write about it and sing about it.
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Attention may sound dull, but it is an essential aspect of consciousness. In fact, it governs what it is that we turn out to be conscious of, and therefore plays a part in the coming into being of whatever exists for us.
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As the years passed in my village, I witnessed poorly educated young men leaving to seek the greater comforts and liberations of big cities. I would see them on my visits to Delhi.
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The problem with certainty is that sometimes it can sound cold and heartless, although it is the most compassionate and supportive answer.
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I have so many gay friends that I love.
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Music is what our feelings sound like.
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Young people who have no future will easily give up their future, which they can't see on the horizon.
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And I used to go the punk clubs such as a gay club in Poland Street that everyone would go to because it was the only place you could go to looking like that without getting beaten senseless.
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I loved Bob Hope and the way he would turn to the camera and break the fourth wall.
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I want to extend my gratitude and thankfulness to all those who care and love my family and myself, and our situation, especially the American people who show their care about the quality of justice as a universal value and I'm very grateful to all of you.
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I would really love to work with Paul McCartney. Isn't that arrogant?
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What I did was sit down with the Washington State officials, with the historic preservation people, with the tribe, the local community, the port of Port Angeles, and we worked this thing out, and we protected the tribe's interest.
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There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realize his conception of the beautiful.
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Young, gay and stuck in Arkansas? Sounds like a horror flick.
