Henry Rollins Quotes
If there was a god, he wouldn't let a guy walk right up and shoot you in the face now would he? That's right, now you get the picture. Truth burns doesn't it?
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For the first time I go to La Scala, for each thing, for each rehearsal, my knees were shaking. But the audience was very fine with me.
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A good stand-up, you lead the audience. You don't kowtow to the audience. Sometimes the audience is wrong. I always think the audience is wrong.
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I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.
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There is nothing I'm any more passionate than empowering the next generation.
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From the catbird seat, I've found poetry to be the necessary utterance it has always been in America.
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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
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I have decided to fight for my country, because we have build a success story in Guanajuato, with real results and more yet to come in the next two years.
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For some, being involved in a scene is a great thing because the social element can drive creativity. For me, though, it's never really been like that. It's the opposite. I've always had this instinct to escape.
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Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from him.
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I don't watch much British television at all. I mean, it's ironic because I used to work in it for years.
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More than half the world's largest 100 economies are corporations. They have no loyalties to place or citizens.
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Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.
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Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
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He wasn't directing it, of course, so I didn't work with Hitchcock.
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I never thought about being famous.
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Hitchcock makes it very clear to us. There's an objective and a subjective camera, like there's a third- and a first-person narrator in literature.
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Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.
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One way or another, Gaza's residents must live in peace with Israel.
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I can't re-define music every week!
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'Shun security,' I advise aspiring novelists when they complain to me that they are stuck. 'Get disoriented. Maybe your agonizing writing block isn't agonizing enough. Your enemy is comfort.'
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It's a profoundly different thing to be able to refer to the images you are taking at the time and check them out on a laptop that is plugged into your Hasselblad and go "oh no, do it again, do it again" - all of those a requickly made decisions. The fact that you can see the images right away in a funny way makes the whole relationship more casual. I don't want a casual relationship with my subject.
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The East Texas accent is a famously difficult accent to do.
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Music is the only thing that I trust.
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If there was a god, he wouldn't let a guy walk right up and shoot you in the face now would he? That's right, now you get the picture. Truth burns doesn't it?
