Henry Rollins Quotes
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Now I am not against widgets, those small third-party applications that people can put on their Web pages on social networks like Facebook and MySpace, in general.
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People, y'know, they either love us or they hate us; there's no middle ground.
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Mister Cee's a legend, man.
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If men are wont to play with swearing anywhere, can we expect they should be serious and strict therein at the bar or in the church.
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I feel a big obligation to the audience, almost in a moral sense, to say something useful. If I'm going to spend a year of my life on these things, I want something that I feel that strongly about.
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I love the game of hockey. I love being part of it. I think I know a lot about the game.
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Wuxia is a fantasy world exists in everyone's mind.
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There is no real agreement among scholars as to whether Homer and Hesiod were contemporaries or whether Homer came a hundred or so years later or earlier. How could there be, given that both poets recited and sang in an oral culture.
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I feel like we can't pick who we fall in love with because if we could, we would all make better choices. Your heart just falls where it falls.
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Believing a person deserves a defence is not the same as doing anything in your power to get him off scot-free.
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When I'm 80 years old, I don't know what I want to be remembered for.
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My other Main Man is Muhamed Ali, for the obvious reasons.
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Running opened up something beautiful in my life. I try to send the energy all over my body. I love the feeling of it.
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I love animated movies in general. I like making them.
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After two world wars, the collapse of fascism, nazism, communism and colonialism and the end of the cold war, humanity has entered a new phase of its history.
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We passed a bill in 1997, signed by Democratic Gov. Lawton Chiles, which created a pilot program for a novel experiment called Florida Virtual School. The notion of children using a computer for a classroom and reporting to virtual teachers wasn't exactly mainstream thinking in those days.
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I didn't have cable television growing up; there were only six channels you could watch then. The only really good channel was channel 10, and they would play 'The Nanny Called Fran' every night for years. I've seen every episode 100 times. I would get my Grandma to make me leopard skin dresses on her sewing machine.
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It's always discouraging when you don't have things go your way. They are frustrated just like the rest of us.
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People actually tell me that I'm living my dream. And I'm like, 'It's a little more nuanced than that.'
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It's kind of a test when you read a novel thinking about its potential for the screen: How does it play on your mind's screen?
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I'm the nice guy who sits there signing everything that's put in front of me.
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One of the disadwantages of school and learning, he thought dreamily, was that the mind seemed to have the tendency too see and represent all things as though they were flat and had only two dimensions. This, somehow, seemed to render all matters of intellect shallow and worthless.
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The idea of songwriting is a transformative thing, and what I do with songwriting is take situations that are quite ordinary and transform them in some way. Apart from things like the murder ballads, the songs I write, at their core, are quite ordinary human concerns, but the process of writing about them transforms them into something else.
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I'm disappointed by bands left and right, every day.
