Henry Rollins Quotes
Sometimes it seems the harder you try to hold onto something or someone the more it wants to get away. You feel like some kind of criminal for having felt, for having wanted. For having wanted to be wanted. It confuses you because you think that your feelings were wrong and it makes you feel so small because it’s so hard to keep it inside when you let it out and it doesn’t come back. You’re left so alone that you can’t explain.
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My son's a West Point cadet.
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I was an easygoing guy, and school was pretty much people trying to challenge me to a fight, y'know, saying, 'Rambo! Rocky!'
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I hardly ever write when I'm just feeling great.
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All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.
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I wanna live.
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If you don't have a healthy relationship with yourself, how can you with anyone else? Even if it's not healthy, I imagine it's a lot of fun. And healthy or not, I still think there can be a lot of love.
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God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
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Writing lyrics is part spontaneous, intuitive and part really thought through and carefully analyzed as you write it. It's a mixture of two approaches, and I imagine writing anything is like that, really. Some of it just flows, and you just go with it.
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Privacy is a vast subject. Also, remember that privacy and convenience is always a trade-off. When you open a bank account and want to borrow some money, and you want to get a very cheap loan, you'll share all details of your assets because you want them to give you a low interest rate.
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I am not a fashion freak!
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I have literally played the most interesting parts since I turned 40.
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If we were the team that won out, then life was good and we felt that we were worth something.
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The most fun you can possibly have as an actor is to walk that line between what's real and what's interesting.
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The thing I find frustrating about rock music is, how different can you make an acoustic drum kit sound, an electric guitar and vocals?
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To be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret for, isn't it?
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I don't know what a supermodel is. If they call me that, I might have to punch them. It's just so vain and so unreal.
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Choice of aim is clearly a matter of clarification of values, especially on the choice between possible options.
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I want to perform an unnatural act.
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I want to go to college if I can. That's really important to me, and I really hope that I get that opportunity to do so.
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I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable.
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Do not wave stick when trying to catch dog.
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I think music is an instrument. It can create the initial thought patterns that can change the thinking of the people.
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A certain ounce of arrogance is not essential in carrying forward an idea. In talking about the device with others, surprising now number of people who either were quite negative and had reasons to suggest it would not function as described or claimed that it would be of little interest and no better than some already existing device.
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Sometimes it seems the harder you try to hold onto something or someone the more it wants to get away. You feel like some kind of criminal for having felt, for having wanted. For having wanted to be wanted. It confuses you because you think that your feelings were wrong and it makes you feel so small because it’s so hard to keep it inside when you let it out and it doesn’t come back. You’re left so alone that you can’t explain.
