Henry Rollins Quotes
There is a concerted effort to keep you and me, you know, the people, away from what it [war] really looks like, 'cause when you're selling war, when it's such a big industry. What they don't tell you is the rest of it and the down side of it. And so obviously there is a lot of money and a lot of time and effort being spent on that campaign "perpetual war for perpetual peace".
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At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.
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I work in the most non-Communist job. I work for 'Martha Stewart Living.'
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Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?
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National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane.
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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
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Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.
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Hebrew is my first language, so it's really the most personal and the most simple. When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.
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I say, you work eight hours, and you sleep eight hours - be sure they're not the same eight hours.
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For more than two centuries since winning our own freedom, we the people of the United States have repeatedly answered the call to lead the quest for freedom around the globe.
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I don't date my girlfriend because she's a model. I date her because I love her.
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I've dated men my age, younger than me and older. The only difference is the young ones are quicker at taking out the garbage.
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I don't go online, I don't read reviews, I try not to look at anything on the Internet.
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I've grown up a lot, I'm on my own, and I've learned some valuable life lessons.
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I thought I would reflect here on a theme most scientists enjoy recalling: the part luck played in their accomplishments.
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Money isn't everything. Do you get married because of money? Do you have kids because of money?
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The East Turkestan Islamic Movement, named for an old Uighur name for Xinjiang, is a shadowy group that operates largely out of Afghanistan and Pakistan and is devoted to expelling the Chinese Communist Party from northwestern China.
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I always saw politics as an expansion of my role as a mom.
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I have always been convinced that if a woman once made up her mind to marry a man nothing but instant flight could save him.
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We expected that people were just waiting for the collapse of the Soviet Union, or at least for its retreat, and they were going to be full of initiative in all areas of life - in culture, in economy and in politics.
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I like shape very much. A novel has to have shape, and life doesn't have any.
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If someone writes something shitty and you actually address them, most of the time they're just like, "Oh, I'm sorry. I'm a big fan." And they're really nice people. When you're on the Internet, it's people's first instinct to just go after people.
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In fact, if you look at people within our government, they seem to be quite enthusiastically fighting the war against their own people at the behest of the United States. So it doesn't seem to me that the strong way to oppose this is by joining politics at all, but just to keep speaking and to keep talking about it.
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It takes a thoroughly good woman to do a thoroughly stupid thing.
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There is a concerted effort to keep you and me, you know, the people, away from what it [war] really looks like, 'cause when you're selling war, when it's such a big industry. What they don't tell you is the rest of it and the down side of it. And so obviously there is a lot of money and a lot of time and effort being spent on that campaign "perpetual war for perpetual peace".
