Henry Rollins Quotes
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There's something really incredible about watching what someone else does with a role that we know: the Hamlets or the Henry Vs or the Othellos or the Cleopatras that we've seen on stage.
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In the event that my illness worsens, I want to have a guarantee that I can die in a dignified manner. Nowhere in the bible does it say that a person has to stick it out to the decreed end. No one tells us what "decreed" means.
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things in this world are very roughly averaged; and although averaging is a useful, rapid way of dispatching business, it does undoubtedly waste a great deal which is too good for wasting.
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How does [Mitt Romney] explain all of those terrible things he said, you know, that - to the Kellyanne [Conwey] point.
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Even if a man should chance to speak the most complete truth, yet he himself does not know it; all things are wrapped in appearances
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No politician is threatened by the child protective constituency, because it does not exist.
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A speaker who does not strike oil in ten minutes should stop boring.
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Tragedy when ridiculed by comedy does not condescend a reply.
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Where does the body end and the mind begin? Where does the mind end and the spirit begin? They cannot be divided as they are inter-related and but different aspects of the same all-pervading divine consciousness.
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Purity of race does not exist. Europe is a continent of energetic mongrels.
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...a good friend stands in harm's way for you the second you ask--but a great friend does it without being asked at all.
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That which exercises reason is more excellent than that which does not exercise reason; there is nothing more excellent than the universe, therefore the universe exercises reason.
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Nowhere more than in New York does the contest between squalor and splendor so sharply present itself.
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Buy a house in a foreign country and, it seems, that anything which can go wrong usually does.
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Whoever is still seeking for miracles so that he may believe is himself a wonder, who does not believe while the world around him does.
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The place they go towards is a place even less imaginable to us than the city of happiness. I cannot describe it at all. It is possible it does not exist. But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas.
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Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.
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They see Hermione as someone who is not vulnerable, but I see her as someone who does have quite a lot of vulnerability in her personality.
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There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart; he does not feel for man.
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The Congress fights not with violent but with nonviolent means, however imperfect, however crude the nonviolence may be.
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He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.
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Why shouldn't we give our teachers a license to obtain software, all software, any software, for nothing? Does anyone demand a licensing fee, each time a child is taught the alphabet?
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He talked a lot about the past and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy.
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Some music really does suck!
