Henry Rollins Quotes
Without the blues, modern music would be nothing like it is now - not remotely.
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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I think every fight is different based on who is fighting.
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I'm quite ignorant about fashion and I'm colourblind, so it's all a tad tricky. My only knowledge of that world comes through Christopher Bailey, whom I first met in 2008 when I did a campaign for Burberry that featured musicians, artists, actors and sportsmen.
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I was quite good at football once, although other than that my speciality would be maths. I'm great at sudokus and find all the spin-off games pretty easy too.
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In the Constitution of the United States, Negroes are referred to as fellows although the word 'slave' is carefully avoided before the thirteenth amendment.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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A true heiress is never mean to anyone - except a girl who steals your boyfriend.
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A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
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In every walk of life, you must have leaders. An education in the spiritual world, in the labor field, in the agricultural field, we must have leaders.
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Our need for that exterior god that sits up there and judges us... will diminish and eventually disappear.
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I'm the kind of person who always wants more. I was successful materially, but I know life is much more than worldly success. I saw all these blessings God had given me. The way to give thanks is obedience to God.
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I think a lot of people have a problem with the fact that I've adopted an African child, a child who has a different color skin than I do.
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I haven't been hit since Leon Spinks hit me in '92.
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Economics make homeopath and alternative healers look empirical and scientific.
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Young people like to think they're invincible. They don't like to face any situation where they've gotten weaker instead of stronger.
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Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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The publishing of a book is a worldwide event. The attempt to suppress a book is a worldwide event.
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Political elites look increasingly interchangeable: Blair, Brown, and Cameron have all tried to provide cover for the surrender of sovereignty to foreign investors with invocations of 'British' values, and, more opportunistically, anti-immigrant rhetoric.
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Life is islands of ecstasy in an ocean of ennui, and after the age of thirty land is seldom seen.
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Being a single mother was the right thing for me. But I have a tremendous amount of help from my friends. They're in love with my kids, and my kids are in love with them.
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I was always self-conscious about the fact that I didn't have as much comedy experience as other people at 'SNL,' and I kept thinking they were going to realize they'd made a mistake by hiring me.
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Fifty per cent of rock is having a good time.
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Without the blues, modern music would be nothing like it is now - not remotely.
