Henry Rollins Quotes
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I had no idea who I was when I started. I was frightened to death and had no natural performing skills.
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I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading.
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Sometimes when you think you are done, it is just the edge of beginning. Probably that's why we decide we're done. It's getting too scary. We are touching down onto something real. It is beyond the point when you think you are done that often something strong comes out.
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You can't teach the old maestro a new tune.
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Recorded music is more a marketing tool than a revenue source.
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The world is waiting for us, the world wants to engage with us, the world wants to be friendly with us, the world wants to be our partner in prosperity, and the world admires India in many ways.
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Er, Tom, I hate to be the one to point this out, but your fix list is starting to resemble a feature list. You must be human or something.
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I'm not a Barbie doll, I'm just a multidimensional human being who likes to make things.
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When I start something, I have to finish it, and I'm a super perfectionist, too.
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When I told my mother that I wanted to be an actress, she said, you can't live here and do that, and so I moved out. I was determined to prove her wrong because she was so sure that I was going to go astray. And that's the juice that kept me going.
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Money flows into the US, and inflates US assets, and allows the US to have a monstrous trade deficit. That means we are consuming more than we are producing.
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It's so crazy to think about touring with Weezer because that's a band that I grew up with.
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What was funny if you were there is that we were all immensely sophisticated people who knew exactly what she was going to say and we're chatting away, nice to see you.
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It is almost impossible to divorce sport from politics, but sport is such a positive factor in today's society - there is nothing else which will bring so many people together in that atmosphere.
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There's a part of me that wants to be known and make a comfortable living but still be able to go grocery shopping. My overall idea of success is having people I want to work with want to work with me.
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I grew up twelve miles outside of Montego Bay. In my early teens, I went to Kingston. It was like a different planet for me. In the country, people are kind. In the city, people are hard an' cold, like the concrete and steel.
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I'm not 'Grace.' That album is like a brick onto itself. It's like a coffin that I put certain feelings and observations in so that they can be capsulized forever. I wanted to put them there so I would be free to move on.
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Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.
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My mom told me if I ever got a tattoo, she was going to take it off with a potato peeler.
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Vous savez, c'est la vie qui a raison, l'architecte qui a tort.
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There was a period in my life when I was trying to write standards: songs that everybody recorded. I did a pretty good run of it.
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It'd be stupid for me to sit here and say that there aren't kids who look up to me, but my responsibility is not to them. I'm not a baby sitter.
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After this many years of being a lead singer in a touring rock band, I've had my fair share of fun. But those days are long behind me.
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I never thought about getting any tattoos removed.
