Henry Rollins Quotes
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They liked me so long as the liquor flowed at my house, but I haven't seen any of them around lately.
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Instead of mindlessly tossing billions at or taking billions from the Net as such, investors should be spending their time making sure that it's the future Fords and General Motors of cyberspace that are getting the capital they need.
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I enjoyed a cartoon show called 'Recess' throughout my high school career. The target audience for that show was 8-11 years old.
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Oh, I'm a pretty bad poet. This has been corroborated by others.
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There is no controversy within science over the core proposition of evolutionary theory.
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Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.
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I've gone through my whole life caring deeply what people think of me.
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I don't do commentaries; I can't listen to them, either.
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Never believe that true prayer consists in mere babbling, reciting so many psalms and vigils, saying your beads while you allow your thoughts to roam.
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Bring English tyranny to its knees.
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Central function of the amygdala, which I call the brain’s smoke detector, is to identify whether incoming input is relevant for our survival. It does so quickly and automatically.
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I grew up hiking and horseback riding in Tennessee, so I love being outside. I will joyfully run 12 miles, but I'm not very good at boot camps. When they start yelling, I start laughing.
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My lesson from history is that if there is a strong moderate centrist party which can lead the country, there is no room for extremists from the right or left.
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I have to be working, doing things. That's the way I grew up and the way I was taught.
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On my first European solo tour, I was selling maybe 50 tickets a city until I showed up in Paris and heard the show was already at 150 tickets, which, at the time, really blew my mind and took me by complete surprise.
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Stop yelling. If everyone’s yelling, no one can be heard.
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The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying, 'Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.' She's got a baseball bat and yelling, 'You want a piece of me?'
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I was searching for something a little more than a dashing metaphor, a good deal less than a cultural map: and for those purposes the two cultures is about right.
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The biggest breakthroughs in consciousness occur when things are difficult; when we have a choice to fall to the worst of ourselves or rise to the best of ourselves.
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The secret of getting on the shortlist is doing your best work fearlessly for a long time before you get on the list.
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You can't get your head around something if you're yelling.
