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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We have long passed the Victorian Era when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby.
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All movement, of every creature, comes from the desire after something better.
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We're real people and we're a band that's been playing on the scene for a long time. We've made a lot of friends, and one enemy we've always had was the NME. They've always basically slated us and they've basically never ever written about the music.
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There is no greater gift to future generations than that we do the work God has asked us to do: love one another, that the world might be made right.
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I was absolutely delighted that those shows have been preserved.
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I’m packed with broken glass and memories and it all hurts.
