Henry Rollins Quotes
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I had a high school sweetheart that was my first. We were together all through high school. I had just broken up with him because I didn't think I was good enough. He wanted to be an anesthesiologist. I wanted to be an entertainer. His life was more planned out, and mine wasn't.
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If dreams are like movies, then memories are films about ghosts.
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The point - the power to hurt - of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.
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I think that's very sad, that I haven't allowed my heart to be broken. I have broken a few.
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I get to see life through rose-colored glasses a lot of the time.
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I think Gil Scott-Heron is a king. He's a brilliant, broken king.
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Music evokes so many feelings in us, memories, nostalgia, things that are connected to our past.
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The Beatles were a group made up of four very complex men, and my small hand could not have broken these men up.
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The NFL is such a large, multibillion dollar enterprise with fan loyalty because they have provided not only entertainment for sports fans, but memories, good memories, family memories to these fans, that can only bring about good will.
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I love to dance, and sing - in the shower, not in public. I'm too old to go raving, but my fondest memories are of that kind of thing - dancing, with lots of people, outside if possible.
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Mankind progresses not smoothly, as by a sliding carpet ascent, but by rugged steps broken by gaps. He halts long on one stage before taking the next. Often he remains stationary, unable to form resolution to step forward - sometimes even has turned round and retrograded.
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Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.
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Our minds and memories are crowded with the common experience of nature.
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Maybe a day will come when we may have to just put on a pair of glasses and see sports events.
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I'm amazed by the misconceptions about Muslim women and the Arab world that I hear, and that really does hurt me.
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Grown-ups and children are not readily encouraged to unearth the power of words. Adults are repeatedly assured a picture is worth a thousand of them, while the playground response to almost any verbal taunt is 'Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.' I don't beg so much as command to differ.
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Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them.
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Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.
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It is not, then, in the content or substance of folly that its difference from truth lies, but in where it comes from. It comes not from ‘the wise man’s mouth’ but from the mouth of the subject assumed not to know and speak the truth.
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A man may climb Everest for himself, but at the summit he plants his country's flag.
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Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself.
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In youth men are apt to write more wisely than they really know or feel; and the remainder of life may be not idly spent in realizing and convincing themselves of the wisdom which they uttered long ago.
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Many mines in the world are unsafe. They are dangerous as hell.
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I’m packed with broken glass and memories and it all hurts.
