Henry Rollins Quotes
So I'm more at home with my backpack, sleeping in a hotel room or on a bus or on an airplane, than I am necessarily on a bed. It's weird being here. It feels like I'm standing next to my real life.
Quotes to Explore
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Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.
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The best lesson I was given is that all of life teaches, especially if we have that expectation.
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The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain anymore so it eats it!
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To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.
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My whole outlook on life is, never judge a book by its cover.
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I've led a charmed life. I've known people who have been depressed, and I've never had that.
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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
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I have been blessed with roles that allow me to express something very personal at a specific time in my life. I seek them out; acting is my therapy.
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I had spent time in New York, where I loved the idea that theater could be done up in tiny little rooms rather than for lots of money on a big stage, and be tied to ordinary life.
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You dread that there will be real problems during filming.
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I loved 'Monsoon Wedding' and 'Lunchbox' because they had 'real' stories. I wish there are more films made like them.
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I guess life offers you opportunities to live your dream. We just have to accept what comes our way and live those moments completely. You will not get back this time again, so live every moment you get.
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Rap is something you can just throw on the skillet and fry up real quick. That's how it comes to me, my train of thought. It's like getting dressed - I don't have to sit down and stare at clothes, I just pick what I like and put it on. But rock, you gotta put it in the oven and let it bake.
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I don't know if it is of any joy to humiliate people. No matter what, whether you're high in life or low in life, humiliation and such kinds of things should just be ignored. I don't derive any pleasure from running people down.
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In the summer of 1988, my father took me up to look at the remains of our home, the dream house that he'd built. It was my first time since our family left four years earlier. Political and obscene graffiti covered the half-torn walls. There was no ceiling and surprisingly no floor: the parquet, the stone, the marble, all looted.
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In England, I met a couple who run a children's home. They were very kind and showed me many nice spots in England.
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A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated from it.
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I was very happy being a secretary. I loved working for the government. I was very happy with my life.
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War is an arena for the display of courage and virtue. Or war is politics by other means. War is a quasi-mystical experience where you get in touch with the real. There are millions of narratives we impose to try to make sense of war.
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I’m not afraid of the real truth. There is nothing you can tell me about yourself that is going to make me clutch my pearls.
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I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize.
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When I was working on 'Vampires Suck,' I must have watched 'Twilight' and 'New Moon' literally almost every day.
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Certain social situations make me feel like a square peg in a round hole. Realising you can connect to the human race through song makes me feel less alien.
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So I'm more at home with my backpack, sleeping in a hotel room or on a bus or on an airplane, than I am necessarily on a bed. It's weird being here. It feels like I'm standing next to my real life.
