Henry Rollins Quotes
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I guess you'd call me an independent, since I've never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label.
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Philanthropy is natural. For a mother, taking care of her children is natural. If I am rich, I take care of the poor, like a mother would.
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Feature filmmaking is a very powerful medium. It has a hold on me now.
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My sin as a painter is that I just want to paint anything I want to paint - and repaint.
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Yeah, I'm running for the White House again. Well, it's not a run, really; it's sort of a brisk walk.
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People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
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Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
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Yes, my mom does keep making references to marriage, like all mothers do, but it's only in a lighter mood... she just jokes.
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We're sad about some of the losses of members of great seniority and distinction in the Congress, and some very new members, who will no longer be serving with us.
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I want to live in Kolkata; I don't want to live in Europe - I can't write there. I write in Bengali, and I need to be surrounded by the Bengali language and culture.
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For me, it's an experiment to see what people are gonna think of it.
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Problem-solving becomes a very important part of our makeup as we grow into maturity or move up the corporate ladder.
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I'm happy to sparkle like a glazed disco ball.
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I think they have this impression that I'm this miserable cow who doesn't smile. But I'm actually quite the opposite ... I'm going to try and smile more for America
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He who perceives death perceives a sense of the human comedy, and quickly becomes a poet.
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She does not know where any tale waits before it's told. (No more do I.) But forty thieves sounds good, so forty thieves it is. She prays she has bought another clutch of days. We save our lives in such unlikely ways.
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War settles nothing.
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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
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I don't really write with actors in mind; I write with characters and then hope desperately that we can get good actors to play those parts.
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I think my stubbornness, hardheadedness and stupidity is what has allowed me to play for 20 years.
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One should not wrongly reify 'cause' and 'effect,' as the natural scientists do (and whoever, like them, now 'naturalizes' in his thinking), according to the prevailing mechanical doltishness which makes the cause press and push until it 'effects' its end; one should use 'cause' and 'effect' only as pure concepts, that is to say, as conventional fictions for the purpose of designation and communication-not for explanation.
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To know the good is a dangerous thing; to know it for sure is usually fatal for somebody.
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Dog-fooding is using your own products so that you understand from inside out what it is you're providing the customers. It's another way to gain insights and to gain intelligence. You use it yourself; you eat your own dog food. Every time we do that, we discover something that we can improve.
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Discipline is money in the bank. A real friend, true strength.
