Henry Rollins Quotes
You have to get away from them. You have to get as far away as you can otherwise they'll kill you with their lives. They don't know what they do. They are careless with themselves and they take too much for granted. They make their shortcomings your problem. The only way to keep your head above it and heal your wounds is to crawl away.
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I love to see women who are comfortable in their skin and dress to suit their body - that looks fabulous because it's authentic.
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Do you follow American politics? They hate Obama. Hate him. He's a black man. That's what it is: it's racist. This guy is no bleeding-heart liberal. He's a centrist.
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The only theism worthy of our respect believes in God not because of the way the world is made but in spite of that. The only theism that is no less profound than the Buddha's atheism is that represented in the Bible by Job and Jeremiah.
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I'm not afraid of failing. I don't like to fail. I hate to fail. But I'm not afraid of it.
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Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.
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My priority is to take care of my daughter and my family.
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I think there are a lot more important things than art in the world. But not to me.
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Look at any country that's plagued with poverty, disease or violence; the antidote is girls. Girls are the antibodies to many of society's ills.
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I have such difficulty calming down - my stomach, my head, reality, everything. That is the reason I live in Faro.
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The commonest error made in relation to poetry is that it consists simply in verse-making. Many confound the casket of meter and rhyme with the jewel of thought which it encloses, and, perhaps, in some instances, after close investigation, they have found the casket empty and turned away with feelings of disappointment and disgust.
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My parents, particularly my father, had been used by commentators, political journalists and political commentators, to attack me, and the collateral damage was the reputations of my father and my mother.
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Maybe I'm just purely lucky. If I've come up against obstacles I've always found another way around it.
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It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.
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I've just sort of jumped into relationships and moved in with people way too soon.
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Dabbing was a way of fashion that turned into a dance.
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In the nineties, it was common to see people who expressed themselves through one designer - the Jil Sander woman, the Martin Margiela woman. You saw her on the street, and you knew who she was.
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I used to go in for Disney auditions, and they'd tell me, 'You're cute and nice but just not funny.'
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I used to do little sketches into my cassette tape recorder when I was a little boy. I would just turn it on and just start doing voices and characters. I just loved it.
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I think it happens with every career when you've been around 10 or 12 years. You start to get on cruise control a little bit, then you freak out and go, 'Oh my gosh, we've got to change some things up.'
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We cannot solve a problem by saying, "It's not my problem." We cannot solve a problem by hoping that someone else will solve it for us. I can solve a problem only when I say, "This is my problem and it's up to me to solve it."
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It's always fun to put on bell bottoms and have your butt hanging out and hip huggers.
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I would never like to endorse a fairness cream. I believe in natural beauty.
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I don't think you get anything good if you just accept everything the way it rolls out. You have to fight for what you believe in.
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You have to get away from them. You have to get as far away as you can otherwise they'll kill you with their lives. They don't know what they do. They are careless with themselves and they take too much for granted. They make their shortcomings your problem. The only way to keep your head above it and heal your wounds is to crawl away.
