Henry Rollins Quotes
I don't mean to be arrogant and I really appreciate my fans but talking about what I am doing is not something I'm good at. I do what I do and that's it. I want to get back to my work and do more of it instead of talking about it.
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She was a great lady. We raised three boys, were together as long as she lived, and now she's passed on.
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I always wanted to do a bit of Bollywood and a bit of Hollywood.
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It was in the Papal States that I studied the Roman Question. I traveled over every part of the country; I conversed with men of all opinions, examined things very closely, and collected my information on the spot.
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One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.
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You can learn more from a person just from their observations and how they see the world. More so than just talking.
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People know about the Klan and the overt racism, but the killing of one's soul little by little, day after day, is a lot worse than someone coming in your house and lynching you.
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I vote Labour and can't begin to acknowledge anything good that comes from a Tory.
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People never believe you.
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I have a whole area in my closet for displaying shoes. They are in rows. But nobody comes in my closet, so they are only on display for me. It's pretty spectacular.
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I'm from L.A., but everyone thinks that I'm British.
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The main engagement of the writer is towards truthfulness; therefore he must keep his mind and his judgement free.
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Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.
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Don't believe that winning is really everything. It's more important to stand for something. If you don't stand for something, what do you win?
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When it is good, theatre takes a lot of beating both to watch and perform.
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But the trouble is that when you drink it, you invariably meet other people drinking it.
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It has never been necessary for me to learn how to read music.
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I never really took a proper art class in college. I just started reading art magazines and going to galleries. I was really drawn to it.
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Environment protection weighs the same in my life as my professional acting career.
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This is what makes sports so amazing, that we can start a discussion around a table, in the newspaper, in the magazines, that will get people's attention. And that's what sports does.
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When we look at cutting people's commute - like that word infrastructure is boring. Who knows what that means? But what it really means is we got to cut people's commutes, we got to reduce congestion. Congestion costs the economy tens of billions of dollars a year to have people just stuck in traffic and non-productive time. So we got to fix that. And the best way to do that is invest in transit. And - so I'm happy that all three of the main parties seem to agree that investing in transit is important.
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We have one of our priests in prison right now for his antiwar actions, and three of us in the community are forbidden to visit him because we're all convicted felons.
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A true community is not just about being geographically close to someone or part of the same social web network. It's about feeling connected and responsible for what happens. Humanity is our ultimate community, and everyone plays a crucial role.
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You have to compromise all the way. The only thing that counts is the result.
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I don't mean to be arrogant and I really appreciate my fans but talking about what I am doing is not something I'm good at. I do what I do and that's it. I want to get back to my work and do more of it instead of talking about it.
