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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When I was a young boy, I was obsessed with skulls and mummies and things like that.
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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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Without Ace of Base, I kind of feel Backstreet Boys would have never found their sound.
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I'm pretty sure my house in Florida is haunted! He's a nice ghost though.
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Journeying through secret doors, curving corridors, and connecting rooms into the mountain was like being digested by the different organs of a deity.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.
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I love seeing young people take a stance and not be afraid to say how they feel, and protest when they feel things are wrong or unjust.
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Young, gay and stuck in Arkansas? Sounds like a horror flick.
