Henry Rollins Quotes
As a teen, I heard the second Velvet Underground album, 'White Light/White Heat,' and it was too much for my limited scope of appreciation. It was intense, but I didn't get it.
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I never had plastic surgery. I had a nose procedure done because I had to. I had no cartilage in my nose; I have a piece of cartilage from my ear put into my nose. I had a medical procedure done. I have no plastic in my nose.
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The 'chinked out' style is a school of hip hop - that's the way I like to think of it - that incorporates Chinese elements and sounds.
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It's better to have a rich soul than to be rich.
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I still get to preach 14, 15 times a year. But you have to make a living.
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Some people have theorized that I lurched to prove myself intellectually. But it was not any lurch. It was more a kind of awakening.
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Delhi is my emotional home. I still dream of owning a home there.
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I like Xtreme Sour Strips. These really colorful little strips that are so good. I like snacking on them. They're not healthy for you, though!
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An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body.
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Bethou me, said sparrow, to the crackled blade, And you, and you, bethou me as you blow, When in my coppice you behold me be.
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Mistaking no answers in practice for no answers in principle is a great source of moral confusion.
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All we can do when we think of kids today is think of more hours of school, earlier age at the computer, and curfews. Who would want to grow up in that world?
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I don't really use fragrance. I use essential oils, but not necessarily every day.
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It's a very enclosed world on Wall Street.
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I'm still a shy person. I've learned to put that aside on certain occasions. I have to. It's part of my job.
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It is more of a disgrace to be robbed of what one has than to fail in some new undertaking.
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We've got 50 percent voter turnout for presidential elections. That's appalling. We can do so much better.
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The first tournament I ever played, I won. I was six years old.
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The way I dress, I dress totally different than I did when I was in college. I have to - try to - look professional. You change a lot when you are in the NBA, but I know where I came from.
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As a teenager I started painting and playing guitar.
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To grumble about the world and its unhappiness is always easier than to beat one's breast and groan over oneself.
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When I get ready to do an album, that means I have something to say for the sake of words, and I listen back to all of the things I've been creating and pull things from out of the air to go with them. It's almost like I start creating the album before I even think about creating it.
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I think drug movies free the director to make intense films.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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As a teen, I heard the second Velvet Underground album, 'White Light/White Heat,' and it was too much for my limited scope of appreciation. It was intense, but I didn't get it.
