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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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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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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If you read all your history books, there are no women in them.
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You could get a cheer by saying: 'Let's withdraw from Afghanistan', but I don't think that's where the public's at. It wouldn't be responsible.
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The tantra masters are simply wild flowers, they have everything in them.
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Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.
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If the culture shifts, if people think differently about women, the art will shift, too. You can't ask art to make social change. It's not what it's for.
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Much of that afternoon remains an intense blur: Maybe extremes of pleasure and pain are just too much for the memory to handle, which is why we forget.
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The power to tax and spend is restricted by the enumerated powers.
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I grew up on the South Island of New Zealand, in a city chosen and beloved by my parents for its proximity to the mountains - Christchurch is two hours distant from the worn saddle of Arthur's Pass, the mountain village that was and is my father's spiritual touchstone, his chapel and cathedral in the wild.
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We are misery-making machines! Homo sapiens has perfected the art of causing suffering. Pain is humankind's collective GDP.
