Henry Rollins Quotes
Giving a good performance, giving it all is what it's all about. I love to perform.
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I posed nude to show my parents they couldn't dictate to me any more - that I control my life.
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Furniture is meant to be used and enjoyed.
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Basically, I have a gift as an actress, and I want to present the sophisticated side of me as an actress and a person.
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A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.
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Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.
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I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
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So somebody told me that if I wasn't a coffee drinker yet, by the end of college I'd have to be, because a math major is so tough I would have to stay up very late. I was going to need coffee to do that. Well, merely because they said that, I never drank coffee in college, never got addicted to it, never needed it.
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People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'
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I can be very ordinary looking.
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I've never had to fend for a child's life, which sounds very terrifying.
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Where a city is only focused on one aspect, it becomes a city without a soul, not a city people want to live in.
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Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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I feel like there should be a statute of limitations on scoring political points on the tragedy that was Hurricane Katrina.
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There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an oncoming train which will run them over.
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I felt we must separate political responsibility. The Dalai Lama should not carry that burden. So that is my selfish reason - to protect the old Dalai Lama tradition. It is safer without political involvement.
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Sadly, the President's budget proposal for the upcoming year once again puts cutting taxes for the wealthiest Americans over addressing our country's severe fiscal problems.
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I've learned that I've got to keep level-headed.
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Americans believe cotton is best, but we've invented new fabrics that will change your lifestyle.
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Don't be fooled. Looks can be deceptive. Like every working mother, I'm paddling away like a duck beneath the water.
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The most curious social convention of the great age in which we live is the one to the effect that religious opinions should be respected.
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Unlike the weak, the strong neither give up nor are driven by pain into rash or stupid behavior. They don't like pain any more than anyone else, but they are not willing to settle for short-term relief if it means reducing their options later. They don't rob Peter to pay Paul, they face reality now.
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Giving a good performance, giving it all is what it's all about. I love to perform.
