Henry Rollins Quotes
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I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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I like sitting close to windows.
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My purpose as a writer is to communicate in such a way as to challenge the thinking of readers and touch their hearts.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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The difference between an actor and a star is the budget and the overall presentation of a film.
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I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.
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You know, I endeavor to be more like my older brother. He's very magnetic. He's actually very much like 'Castle' in that people are attracted to him, and just want to be near him. You want to know where my brother is in a crowded room? He's the guy with the crowd around him.
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If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.
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I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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There's no such thing as a non-final cut director.
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Sometimes, especially when it's cold, I get dry skin, so I scratch a lot. I scratch my arms incessantly.
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I know who I am as an artist and I know what my sound is, but I wanted to know what I could do in order to take it to that next level. So the experiences I had last year of moving to California and traveling to places like Rome and Nicaragua where I met a lot of people just had a really big impact in my life.
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'Whiplash' scared me. I feel you should only do projects that scare you to some degree. I get motivated by those sorts of feelings.
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Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
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I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.
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History should belong to all of us, and it needs to include people from different cultural backgrounds. Otherwise, it risks becoming irrelevant to children, who could then become disenchanted with education.
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I didn't come from any money, but even when I was on 'Big Love' - people think you're on a series and you're making bank.
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Sometimes you have to step away from what you love in order to learn how to love it again.
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A lot of people say I tried to emulate Tupac, but when I look back at my career, we're very different artists. I took pages out of Pac's book, of course, and lots of other rappers - Biggie, Nas - of course you take pages out of those books, but you eventually make it your own thing. And I think I did a good job of that.
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Acceptance by government of a dissident press is a measure of the maturity of a nation.
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When I saw 'Blade Runner,' my understanding was that 'Blade Runner' and 'Alien' were sequels to each other - or they were related. They were set in the same world.
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Love beyond the damage.
