Henry Rollins Quotes
I live my life by the numbers. Not only am I an American, I am an Americanist.
Quotes to Explore
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction.
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I learned how to read in second grade, and I entered a summer contest at my local library in Chattanooga, Tennessee. If you read more books than anybody else, you got your Polaroid up on the bulletin board, and I did.
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If the white man gives you anything - just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves.
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I'm the little dog who goes the wrong way - under the hoop.
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I feel quite safe and isolated in Germany. My wife is very well known there. But I am only looked at when I am holding her hand.
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I wish I had come along when the studios were making those big musical pictures. It would be great to do re-makes of some of the old ones like 'Porgy and Bess' or 'Showboat.' I'd love to do 'em.
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Acting was just another part of my life, as it still is today. It's 1 of the 10 things I love doing. It's never just been my life. As cheesy as it sounds, all my eggs were never in just one basket. I had a thousand baskets going on.
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Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.
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The commencement of coal mining at Parsa Kente is a milestone event in coal mining sector.
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I think it was Elisabeth Shue who said that if you start a movie with a woman seen through a man's eyes, that woman is objectified by him throughout.
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You know, those of us who leave our homes in the morning and expect to find them there when we go back - it's hard for us to understand what the experience of a refugee might be like.
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Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.
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Men are like mascara, they run at the slightest display of emotion.
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The real force of Silicon Valley is the mentality, the spirit. There's no reason at all that can't be replicated in Paris.
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The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
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If my subject is alive and is willing to talk to me, I will do it. But I always try to find people who were close, like lovers and family members and work colleagues - because we are what we think we are, but we're also the perception that others have of us. The truth is a sphere. There's always a hidden face.
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My parents' convictions, when it came to discipline, were not very strong. For my bar mitzvah, I gave out a mix tape of '90s grunge - if you got it now, you would think it was the 'Singles' soundtrack.
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Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.
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Later in life, the memories I have of my mother are of constant work balanced with caring for my ailing father.
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I am extremely spiritual. I've not gone into this before because it's personal, but faith is the core of my life.
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It's very important to be conscious and happy from within. No beauty cream can come close to the wonders a balanced body-mind can do for you.
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When I started out, I was definitely writing about experiences that I hadn't had yet. The songs were just based on my influences, songwriters that had written songs before me and that were more experienced and 20, 30 years older than me.
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I live my life by the numbers. Not only am I an American, I am an Americanist.
