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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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 was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age.
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Yoga helps me with a composed and serene state of mind, which is good for writing.
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Now she had a fumbling knowledge that, had she ever understood Ashley, she would never have loved him; had she ever understood Rhett, she would never have lost him.
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Hawkesworth said of Johnson, 'You have a memory that would convict any author of plagiarism in any court of literature in the world.'
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When you watch the first American Pie movie, you're like... 'I know that jock who's kind of sweet and has a girlfriend, and I know that weird off-beat kid.
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Young, gay and stuck in Arkansas? Sounds like a horror flick.
