Henry Rollins Quotes
I don't believe in fate or destiny. I believe in various degrees of hatred, paranoia, and abandonment. However much of that gets heaped upon you doesn't matter - it's only a matter of how much you can take and what it does to you.
Quotes to Explore
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The life ahead can only be glorious if you learn to live in total harmony with the Lord.
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The United States may be a religious nation. But it is also a nation with a strong commitment to separation of church and state.
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For me to be here tonight, everything had to be perfect. I had to get drafted by Utah, had to play with a point guard like John Stockton, and had to be coached by Jerry Sloan and Frank Layden.
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As far as female vocalists, I love Heart, Joan Jett, Courtney Love, Laura Branigan, Linda Ronstadt, Barbra Streisand - or going back to when I was a child, Aileen Quinn, the original Annie.
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The duty of the media is to observe truth and social responsibility.
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Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
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There are a few players who don't like to think about the game.
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Forget the technique. Hit the guy across from you. Don't let somebody come in your space.
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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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Boyfriends? Psh, like I've got time for that!
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I hope to do big action movies and strong dramas, and to produce films. I also want to get kids more involved in what's going on in the world and to be politically active.
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Seeing a man praying to Allah is enough for some people to assume he is a terrorist.
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I eat the same foods almost every day. I have my favorites like Filipino beef broth, chicken soup with lots and lots of rice.
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Through the years I have seen myself as a peaceful person, but the awareness of the anger is part of that process.
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We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.
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As much as we would like to deny it, reading is not vital to human survival.
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I was not a rebellious teenager. I was a sit-in-your-room teenager.
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In Latin America, people want you to write beautiful melodies and words. But there are also songs that do well because they show the reality of life.
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We haven't sat down with Scott and Caroline and said, Now you realize that there's X amount of pounds of thrust. And this can happen and that can happen.
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Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
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Art is man's distinctly human way of fighting death.
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I look at modern life and I see people not taking responsibility for their lives. The temptation to blame, to find external causes to one's own issues is something that is particularly modern. I know that personally I find that sense of responsibility interesting.
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Sometimes the assumptions we make about others come not from what we have been told or what we have seen on television or in books, but rather rom what we have not been told. The distortion of historical information about people of color leads young people (and older people to) to make assumptions that may go unchallenged for a long time.
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I don't believe in fate or destiny. I believe in various degrees of hatred, paranoia, and abandonment. However much of that gets heaped upon you doesn't matter - it's only a matter of how much you can take and what it does to you.
