Henry Rollins Quotes
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Unless technology itself is drastically repressed, the idea of the dystopian monoculture like Orwell's 1984 gets harder to believe. But the danger of a solipsistic society will grow, of a disconnected society of mirror-watchers and navel-gazers.
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I don't think I'm as educated as Whoopi, so I'm lifting myself to her level. But you know, our view of the world, our view of what we can do, our sense of what it means to be here, are similar.
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Our mission is to help founders and anyone or anything that helps founders helps us with our mission.
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To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I have not expressed any harsh sentiment towards our Southern brethren. I have constantly declared, as I really believed, the only difference between them and us is the difference of circumstances.
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I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters.
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This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
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Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
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A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend.
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Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.
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I love the way girls in London dress; it's so different to the American 'blow-dry and immaculate grooming' thing.
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Dance has always been my number one. I started when I was seven years old and I've had the opportunity to work with some really amazing artists.
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Every newspaper editor says the heart of the paper is the reporter - which is true - except for the pay!
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I always have a million things going on at once, but I try to put my energy into the most immediate need.
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As I watched bookstores close, I began to wonder how that felt for the owners. Owning a bookstore was their dream and now they're struggling and seeing those dreams fall apart.
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They call me Fearless Felix.
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And now comes Pete Martell in Twin Peaks and he's just a nice guy.
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I'm pretty ruthless about that; I think when you sign over your story, you sign over your story.
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It seems that in the rush to be the first one to the story, the media overstates things. Not maliciously; I don't think they're intentionally misleading. But the credibility gap is already there, and in this rush to get to the story first, a lot of mainstream outlets just erode their credibility further.
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Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.
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Put up at the moment of greatest suffering a prayer, not for thy own escape, but for the enfranchisement of some being dear to thee, and the sovereign spirit will accept thy ransom.
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Reflection is the lamp of the heart. If it departs, the heart will have no light.
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The trial of a case is a three-legged stool - a judge and two advocates.
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I'm a gun owner and strong supporter of the Second Amendment.
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With a book, there's no volume to turn up. You're very naked with a book.
