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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The last person to be beatified by Pope John Paul II was Mother Teresa of Calcutta in 2003.
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You could just tell when a person belonged somewhere. That is something you can't fake, no matter how hard you try
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Other people are merely mirrors of you. You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects to you something you love or hate about yourself.
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Well, I think when we can turn to the person sitting next to us and really see them with kindness and see ourselves reflected back - when there's some dignity and compassion traveling back and forth.
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Slow down you're doing fine You can't be everything you want to be before your time.
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You never have to listen to a famous person, it's an elective.
