Henry Rollins Quotes
The times I have tried to get close to someone resulted in me feeling threatened and weak.
Quotes to Explore
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Happiness is when you love who you are and you are able to accept yourself and others.
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I'd assumed that a deal was a deal when Princeton admitted me, but I was wrong. The price of getting in - to the university itself, and to the great world it promised to open up - was an endless dunning for nebulous services that weren't included in the initial quote.
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I am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that.
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I see a deep connection between peace and change: peace always starts from within, for communities and people alike. The same is true of change: real change starts from within.
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I remember my father, who was 'somebody' in the synagogue, bringing home with him one of the poor men who waited outside to be chosen to share the Passover meal. These patriarchal manners I remember well, although there was about them an air of bourgeois benevolence which was somewhat comic.
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The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
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In Singapore, there is this life and locals and restaurants and then big casinos and an array of chefs, and even Miami is almost close to Vegas when it comes to an amazing presentation of chefs. But they don't have these massive hotels that have become their own culinary villages.
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The soldier who gropes for glory must submit himself to discipline. Subordination gives strength and security to an army. He that will not submit to it when corrected and improved by the experience of ages does not deserve the proud appellation of a soldier.
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Everything I say is true.
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In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.
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A fair trial is one in which the rules of evidence are honored, the accused has competent counsel, and the judge enforces the proper courtroom procedures - a trial in which every assumption can be challenged.
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It's amazing how a truly great songwriter can touch anyone in the world with their words.
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At His Ascension our Lord entered Heaven, and He keeps the door open for humanity to enter.
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It takes a noble man to plant a seed for a tree that will someday give shade to people he may never meet.
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Fatherland before everything, art afterward.
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I beg you to believe that life is not a process, it's a drama.
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Puns are often unacceptable to the feelings; they come like a spoonful of ice-cream in the midst of a comfortable smoking-hot steak, or as a peppery morsel when your palate was in expectation of a mild pudding.
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I go to the chair of government with feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution.
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Friendship is two souls inhabiting one body.
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The moon, the moon, so silver and cold, Her fickle temper has oft been told, Now shade--now bright and sunny-- But of all the lunar things that change, The one that shows most fickle and strange, And takes the most eccentric range, Is the moon--so called--of honey!
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My mother was a single parent, a speech therapist who worked for a company that kept a substantial percentage of the income they billed for her to teach stroke victims in convalescent hospitals to talk again.
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The times I have tried to get close to someone resulted in me feeling threatened and weak.
