Henry Rollins Quotes
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There are a lot of films that are drug dramas, and we didn't want to tell Scarface again.
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If you're the person living closest to the parent who's going to need help, and you take on the whole role of primary caregiver, you can be pretty sure your sibling who lives farthest away is going to call you and say, 'You don't know what you're doing.' Because they're not on the spot, and they probably feel guilty.
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Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.
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My music is about where I am at the time. In 'Raymond vs. Raymond,' I was going through a lot of things, and it came out in my music. My marriage fell apart, and I was suddenly a single father.
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I just think people should be able to express themselves.
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Any Wall Street advertising that does not go into the boring details of methodology is most likely to be pushing past performance.
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Like most people, there are things I love about Amazon. It's cheap, it's fast, and it's at my doorstep. But Amazon will never replace the important role my local indie plays in my community.
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Haiti was founded by African slaves who rose against their European masters, had a revolution, and created a new state. There is no other such event in Western history.
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I didn't choose acting. The universe did.
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That's sort of what we wanted to do: conquer from the margins, sort of find our place in the middle based on the fact that we were creatures of the margin and of alienation.
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There are a few musicians that I know who seem on the outside like very asocial or somewhat unemotional people, people who aren't capable of emotions, and people think they're very cold inside.
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I never set out to be an actor. Again, my mother presented this job by job to me at the time, and if it sounded fun, I would say yes and if it didn't, I would say no. I always knew, since I was 7 or 8 years old, that it was a means to an end and that I wanted to go to college.
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In many ways, not fitting in has been a comedic asset and a comedic resource.
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The Internet, Facebook, synagogue pamphlets, and the plethora of TV channels and cellular networks in our lives increasingly blur the boundary between the public and private sphere.
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Le désir s'accroît quand l'effet se recule.
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My parents were immigrants. And the place for all immigrants was the factories. They were the source of cheap labor.
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A moment's thought would have shown him. But a moment is a long time, and thought is a painful process.
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My philosophy in life is, Decide what you want to do. You have to have something to hope for.
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There's nothing tiny or insignificant. Everything is significant. And everything flows on the same basis of Laws. Whether you are looking at world events or something that's happening in your kitchen drawer, broad and important, or narrow and seemingly insignificant, there's potential for connection or disconnection in either case. And it is only the connection or the disconnection that is of really any importance.
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I don’t think there’s any right or wrong with music but I do believe that the more varied styles you listen to and absorb, the more you can apply these styles to your own music and ultimately have a more interesting and varied style of your own.
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All United States presidents always say all options are open. But it is not on the table, it is not on the agenda. I happen to think that it is inconceivable.
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Your commander would never lie to you. That's the vice president's job.