Henry Rollins Quotes
I am a white guy in America with an education, albeit high school, but a pretty good one. Another guy from a different demographic or different ethnicity in America can look at me and say, "You take a lot for granted." Well... okay. I just live in a white male American reality, where I hear you but I don't know if I necessarily read you.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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I know I can serve Hawaii and our country well in the U.S. Senate, know we can mount a solid statewide campaign, know we have a good chance of prevailing.
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Rick Santorum has so much potential and so much eagerness to serve our country.
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Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.
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I write almost entirely in bed or on a couch with my feet up on the coffee table. I feel most creative when I'm looking out the window, and my bed and couch have nice views of the New York skyline.
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The cliche of what a rock star is - there's something elitist about it. I never related to that. I'm an entertainer. I think of it as, you're performing for people. It's not a self-glorification thing.
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Music continues to remind me that its boundaries are limitless.
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There are lines that I know are going to get a belly laugh, but after a few shows I get sick of hearing myself say them so I drop them.
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I am a very reserved person and have very few friends in the industry, while most of my close ones are from school and college.
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When other boys dreamt of going to the moon or becoming doctors, I wanted to be a designer.
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Most of what happens in the world is far beyond a dog's comprehension, so they must turn to their faith in us to help them navigate life's treacheries. Don't we, also, have unanswerable questions about the vagaries of modern existence for which the answer is beyond human grasp, so that only our faith can guide us?
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In the '60s, I did many satirical portraits of dictators.
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Producers want to put their music behind revivals but I don't think that's a good trend for the theater at all.
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My grown man crush is Morris Chestnut. He's just timeless!
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If you look at Marvel Comics, there are very few Marvel characters I would like to write.
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Win or lose today I am proud of the way my boys have played in the tournament.
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I don't do drugs. I never have taken any drugs. I don't believe in them.
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I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.
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I think that people should do what their heart and soul tells them to do.
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It's just making sure that everyone is treated equally. Is that so progressive? I don't think it's progressive, I think it's human. And not just gay people - women's rights, immigrants, people of different ethnic backgrounds.
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Women in salsa - women everywhere - we always gotta be defending ourselves.
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There's a statistical theory that if you gave a million monkeys typewriters and set them to work, they'd eventually come up with the complete works of Shakespeare. Thanks to the Internet, we now know this isn't true.
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I was so young when I got so famous, and then I kind of put up a wall around myself. I didn't really want to show people any fragilities or fears; I was trying to be this tough person that I felt was expected of me.
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I am a white guy in America with an education, albeit high school, but a pretty good one. Another guy from a different demographic or different ethnicity in America can look at me and say, "You take a lot for granted." Well... okay. I just live in a white male American reality, where I hear you but I don't know if I necessarily read you.
