Henry Rollins Quotes
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Your life, your circumstances change, and you have to continue to grow as a person, and once you have means and opportunity, you have to make different choices to protect what you have.
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I live in Las Vegas with my family, and I never realized what my parents would go through to get me to a five-minute audition.
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I knew her work very well and I knew that if she offered me a role in her movie, it wouldn't be something stupid. So I agreed to do the film before I read the script.
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I am an actor who doesn't believe in carrying an 'image' in the industry. I don't want to get trapped in an image.
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It should not be the government running the economy.
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The directors that I end up having a really good time with are the ones that understand the fluidity of the medium and are interested in catching lightning in a bottle.
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I'm one of the idiots that negotiates after I write.
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Often I am asked if there is any such thing as a female serial killer.
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Any journey of a creative person has, you know, really unusual challenges and years where you don't work and years where you work.
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All beginnings are involuntary.
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Lir chiseled at the stone. It would take a month to make a perceptible impression on it. He had a few hours. Work harder, then.
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History is a hermaphrodite with many distinguished lovers. We are neither mysteries nor strangers but the living breath of revelation made flesh by the unrestrained desires of a free and universal love. Universal me. Universal you.
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(Recollection of what he was thinking to himself when confronted by the military): 'They want me out, they want me to abrogate the constitution and this is exactly what Speight wants and if they belong to Speight, I don’t belong to them.'
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Usually I get up at 5, it’s a habit I have had since I was in the RSS. I don’t need much sleep, three hours is enough for me. My friends and my doctors complain that it is too less, but it is sufficient for me. You can see, I have worked all day but even now I am sitting here easily talking to you.
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There is no muse of philosophy, nor is there one of translation.
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The court finds everyone to be in contempt (including himself :-), and orders everyone sentenced to five years hard labor. (Working on Perl, of course.)
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If you wanna see the future, Go stare into a cloud.
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'Aha? You have been very clever, madame.' 'No, I haven’t really. It was a pure accident. I mean, I walked into a small café place and there the girl was, just sitting there.' 'Ah. You had the good fortune then. That is just as important.'
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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
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I got what I have now through knowing the right time to tell terrible people when to go to hell.
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All souls in hell are there because they did not pray. All the saints sanctified themselves by prayer.
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Hope not ever to see heaven. I come to lead you to the other shore; into the eternal darkness; into fire and ice.
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There is no heaven for me and no hell. And certainly not any Karma.
