Henry Rollins Quotes
People are best on records and books because you can turn them off or put them back on the shelf.
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I cannot summon up inspiration; I myself am summoned.
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I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of people that are on a long list of artists. They were important to me, especially as an early adolescent.
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These rules may seem simple enough, but it will require great morale and physical courage to adhere to them. But if carried out in the strict sense of the word it will surely lead to a greater success than could otherwise be attained.
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I've been kind of toying around with the bi thing in my head. I wouldn't ever give myself the label 'bisexual', but bi-curious? Yea.
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Gun owners and non-gun owners alike agree on expanding background checks, making gun trafficking a serious crime with stiff penalties, making it illegal for all stalkers and all domestic abusers to buy guns, and expanding mental health resources so the mentally ill find it easier to receive treatment than to buy firearms.
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What you want to do, particularly when you're dealing with a professional sports league and franchises and people's passionate commitment to the game and for the team they root for is, it has to be sustainable.
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Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.
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If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect.
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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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I wake up some mornings hating me too.
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At the Oscars, if you didn't vote for '12 Years a Slave,' you were a racist. You have to be very careful about what you say. I do have particular views and opinions that most of this town doesn't share, but it's not like I'm a fascist or a racist. There's nothing like that in my history.
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And now I have a big house, nice clothes and I travel in first class and I love it, so maybe it's time to enjoy being a star.
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There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.
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Soccer matches should be something special, something people eagerly look forward to, something that brightens life.
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The NSA's business is 'information dominance,' the use of other people's secrets to shape events.
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When I was a kid, it was a huge insult to be a geek. Now it's a point of pride in a weird way.
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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.
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We've played producers almost our entire lives in everything else we've created. But when working on a feature and even dealing with something like Warner Bros. or another production company, or other details that you can worry about - we definitely learned a lot.
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There are so many people that don't believe in themselves and don't have faith.
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Honestly, I don't think we see ourselves as stars. That's what the media tags us as. I personally don't think too much about it.
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Sometimes we overemphasize the political system. There are other ways to make a difference. There's technology, there's media, there's business.
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So if you want to know how Exxon Mobil can make $10 billion profit in 90 days, just look around. The whole world was built for them.
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People are best on records and books because you can turn them off or put them back on the shelf.
