Henry Rollins Quotes
I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.
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I haven't done Vine in a long time, and when I first started, I just did stuff that I thought was funny.
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Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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It's nice not to be too boring.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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You don't actually have control of the position people want you to be in. If they say, 'You king of the blacks,' you're king of the blacks - whether you like it or not.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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Christianity doesn't demand that we worship our ancestors. If we don't remember our ancestors, then, in all likelihood, we cannot also recall the distant past.
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I'm sure it is, I'm not for any kind of war, we've been engaged in several wars since the second world war and we lost in Korea, we lost in Vietnam, they are political wars, they have nothing to do with any real threat, nor does this one.
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I've had loss in my life, and I like to think my mother's energy lives on in some faintly Buddhist way. I do find some comfort there.
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Even as I think of myself as a 'rememberer,' I also know my memory is probably doing all this work to reconstruct a narrative where I come off better.
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I'm a pro-life candidate because I believe that science is proving us right every day.
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Farmers only worry during the growing season, but townspeople worry all the time.
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When sustainability is viewed as being a matter of survival for your business, I believe you can create massive change.
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I'm kind of like a bit of everything wrapped into one.
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When you get lucky, as I did getting to work on a series of amazing films, one of the drawbacks career-wise is that the image of you at 10 or 12 or whatever is burned into people's minds for a long time.
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I can't say I gave up totally my passion for women but almost.
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I'm happy to sparkle like a glazed disco ball.
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I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.
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You have to learn a few things, which you do along the way, but basically, poetry is a matter of the ear. Iambic pentameters or what constitutes a stanza comes naturally - your ears will know.
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What is astonishing about the social history of the Vietnam war is not how many people avoided it, but how many could not and did not.
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I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.
