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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At the end of the day, yes, I'm looking to create a lot of wealth.
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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 only really weird part for me was making sense of the person on the TV at the same time as the person who I am friendly with and do something so friend-intimate with as text.
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This drink has a magical power. It strengthens the weak, and revives those who have fainted. Those tired after work and physical activity can return their life forces by this drink much sooner than by nourishment. ... It works as a diuretic, an appetizer, an antitoxin.
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I can't believe that people really prefer to go to the concert hall under intellectually trying, socially trying, physically trying conditions, unable to repeat something they have missed, when they can sit at home under the most comfortable and stimulating circumstances and hear it as they want to hear it. I can't imagine what would happen to literature today if one were obliged to congregate in an unpleasant hall and read novels projected on a screen.
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Everything's a risk, by the way, these days. Every film you make is a risk. There's no guarantee.
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I just need to take better care of myself. I try to push it as far as I can.
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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.
