Henry Rollins Quotes
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When we mention the 1 percent and the 99 percent, everybody now knows what we are talking about. It's part of our vocabulary. How quickly these numbers jumped from the sidelines to the center.
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I try cars; I try them all. Cars need to be sexy, because we're not talking about biscuits here.
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There is something joyous about not talking.
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There is a feeling, when you listen to radio, that it's one person, and they're talking to you, and you really feel their presence as one person.
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The fact is, funnily enough, that the people who seem to be most committed to causes also seem to be least invested in anyone actually talking to each other.
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One of the reasons I've gotten so attached to talking to scientists is that... they know there is a reality.
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I tried to play sports, which was a disaster and probably one of the reasons I ended up being an actress.
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Pride and excess bring disaster for man.
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Today, as never before, the fates of men are so intimately linked to one another that a disaster for one is a disaster for everybody.
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I tried to write 'Trainspotting' in standard English, but people weren't talking like that.
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I love being with my friends, relaxing and talking.
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I hate being interviewed. I'm like, 'Aaaarrgghh!' I don't like talking about myself.
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I do miss 'Battlestar', the cast and crew. That was a pretty well-oiled machine. It's sort of like you don't know what you've got till it's gone. But I go to a lot of sci-fi conventions, and I love going and talking about the show.
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Doing too much for others (often at their own expense), many persons are more 'human doings' than human beings.
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I think my manager of 30-some odd years now, Tom Hammond. He's as fine a person as you could ever meet. And he's had great theatrical taste and has influenced me that way.
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I find it sad that by not talking about who I sleep with, that makes me mysterious. There was a time when I would have been called a gentleman.
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The music is key. It has the power to transport you. I go from being a slightly insecure, shy kind of a person offstage, to this super-confident, motivated, entity onstage.
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Everybody needs that one person that takes you to the right place to see all the positives in your life.
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A person will not buy from you until he is convinced that you are a friend and are acting in his best interest. You must make this clear.
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There is great value in disaster. All our mistakes are burned up. Thank God we can start a new.
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When a black person has no electricity, no water, they call it the ghetto. When white people have no electricity and no water, they call it camping.
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There's something really great and romantic about being poor and sleeping on couches.
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The funny thing is, whenever I'm working on something, I kind of forget there's a lot of people watching. It makes it easier to be in the moment and to tell a story as well as possible.
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One person's disaster is another person's talking point.
