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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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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It's getting worse under Prime Minister Modi. The economic miracle has failed, to a degree, and people are reaching back to a kind of imagined Hindu past for a feeling of pride. And that feeling of pride necessarily comes from denying any kind of Muslim heritage. People my age seem to be becoming illiberal in a way that I'm surprised by.
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I read a book not to find its meaning, but to find my happiness.
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I can remember walking as a child. It was not customary to say you were fatigued. It was customary to complete the goal of the expedition.
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Actually, I always dreamed about getting a gold medal in the 100-meter freestyle in Olympic swimming. I always thought that would be the epic award in sports to get.
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I hope to work harder than ever to help people around the world.
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It should now be clear why the method of Philosophy is so different from that of the natural sciences. Experiments are not made, because they would be utterly useless.
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With a book, there's no volume to turn up. You're very naked with a book.
