Henry Rollins Quotes
We are misery-making machines! Homo sapiens has perfected the art of causing suffering. Pain is humankind's collective GDP.
Quotes to Explore
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Prog didn't really go away. Just took a catnap in the late Seventies. A new generation of fans discovered it, and a whole new array of bands and solo artists took it on into the new millennium.
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Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
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From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.
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I have made this one dish, a salted caramel chocolate ganache tart. It's so rich. You can only have a few bites!
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Our music comes from our hearts - and it always has.
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Human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires.
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I don't read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.
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When you use words, you're able to keep your mind alive. Writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.
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Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.
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I would never suggest anyone to stay at a company more than six or seven years. We grow as individuals and the world is moving so fast. Typically, I'll always sell a piece of each of my companies along the way.
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Since Sandy Hook, I have sat back as a father and been mesmerized by the inability of the federal government to do anything substantively on gun safety.
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I have lots of memories of my father. He was an incredible father. We all loved him to death. He'd try to educate us as much as he could and was always looking out for us. He was very protective.
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My goal from being a child was to have a happy home life.
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We would be silly to say that race issues don't exist in 2014.
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You don't want to influence the same system you are trying to forecast.
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I probably enjoy campaigning more than most other people in public office because I like people and I enjoy going out there and telling people what I've done.
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I commend Chris Brown and Soulja Boy for going out there for so many years and entertaining the people.
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Look: You're not gonna become a millionaire doing this, but that was never the point. And I think a lot of people in the indie film business kind of took their eye off of that.
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I like the idea of multidisciplinary conversations, so in that spirit, I try and make a contribution from the art world into the music world.
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Time is the most precious gift in our possession, for it is the most irrevocable. This is what makes it so disturbing to look back upon the time which we have lost. Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering. Time lost is time not filled, time left empty.
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I do feel we have several great keepers on this team. We just need to get them that experience.
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I wrote 'All You Could Ask For' to honor a friend, Heidi Armitage, who left us much too soon in 2009 at the age of 43.
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We are misery-making machines! Homo sapiens has perfected the art of causing suffering. Pain is humankind's collective GDP.
