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 am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about.
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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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I'll destroy you. I am the master of disaster.
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Someone needs to remind American CEOs that if you can't run a company that is innovative, financially sound and doesn't poison the rest of us, You can't run a company.
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As a future goal, I just want to be one of those guys that is known.
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Prayer is a trade to be learned. We must be apprentices and serve our time at it. Painstaking care, much thought, practice and labour are required to be a skillful tradesman in praying. Practice in this, as well as in all other trades, makes perfect.
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One person's disaster is another person's talking point.
