Henry Rollins Quotes
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If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.
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I would like to be mates with Richard Branson because I've hung out with him and he is just the loveliest person and obviously a very rich guy and has a lot of stuff going on, but he's actually a really, really sound person, and he's really positive and he's got a really good energy, so I'd like to hang out with him a bit more.
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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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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 can tell you that I am not self-destructive. I'm not a person who wants to die. I'm a person who has life, who wants to live. And I always have. And I wouldn't mistake it for anything else other than that.
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For some reason, my main movie, Lady Sings the Blues, to me really isn't me. I really can let go of Diana Ross when I see the movie. I'm really objective when I'm watching it. I liked that movie so much. That movie was like magic so that when I'm looking at it I'm really not seeing myself, I'm seeing the actress. I'm seeing another person, not the me of me.
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I'm not an upfront person. Being upfront is not my forte. I'm quite happy to stay in the back there with the drums, where I belong.
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It is not a waste to write beautiful prose or poetry for one person's eyes alone!
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I stand at a distance, like a person who comes from another world.
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The third person narrator, instead of being omniscient, is like a constantly running surveillance tape.
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I've learned... that just one person saying to me, 'You've made my day!' makes my day.
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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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Act as if you were already the person you want most to be.
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She did know that the journey to happiness was laborious and strewn with seeds of suffering. She guessed that it was probably a place each person had to seek for herself, that each heart had to find on its own.
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Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.
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Slavery is what slavery's always been: About one person controlling another person using violence and then exploiting them economically, paying them nothing. That's what slavery's about
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The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.
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I think [nancy Reagan] was a very controlled and controlling person, because she was so scared all the time and because she had such an inner sense of panic.
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I think if he Donald Trump goes to the super bowl, he thinks the guys in the huddle are talking about him.
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The minute the church and pastors start saying what do people want and then giving it to them, we betray our calling. We're called to have people follow Jesus. We're called to have people learn how to forgive their enemies.
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There was also the myth of the western films. But my films are borrowed not from the story of the West in America but from the story of cinema.
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Isn't all religions curious? If they weren't you wouldn't get anyone to believe them.
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After eating an entire bull, a mountain lion felt so good he started roaring. He kept it up until a hunter came along and shot him... The moral: When you're full of bull, keep your mouth shut.
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You never have to listen to a famous person, it's an elective.
