Henry Rollins Quotes
The talking shows allow me to come out of my cave and that's why those shows go on for so long. I hate walking off stage. Sometimes I walk off and I miss them as I'm walking off the stage. I wonder if they'll let me go another hour. That's why I do it: to communicate, to get points across.
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I've had enough boyfriends and enough issues. I'd seen enough train wrecks.
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I suspect that one of capitalism's crucial assets derives from the fact that the imagination of economists, including its critics, lags well behind its own inventiveness, the arbitrariness of its undertaking and the ruthlessness of the way in which it proceeds.
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It ultimately becomes an asset to be part of a theatrical family if, indeed, you're good at what you do.
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I'm not shy about trying to find what truth there is in any genre, whether that be an action piece, a sci-fi piece, a small indie film, or a play. I'm open to it all.
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I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.
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I think the most expensive thing I've bought thus far is my Rolex.
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And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.
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The demand that school finances be transferred away from local school districts to the state and/or federal government has been a long-time favorite of the educationist lobbies.
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Raising ambition in 2014 is crucial for arriving at a meaningful climate agreement in 2015.
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See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.
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I'm not a god - I do bad things.
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The industrial thing came about mainly through giving up trying to write pop songs in the early '90s. I don't think I was ever very good at pop music and as soon as I stopped trying, and started to write more the things I loved, it became much heavier and more aggressive.
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R. Kelly is an image, a brand. That's my job. There's a whole other side of me that's Robert, who is a father, a friend. But then I put on the game face and go into the studio and do the music. That's just another day at the office.
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I am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion.
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Conflict cannot survive without your participation.
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Though Nathalie Dupree did not remember much about my presence in her class, it marked me forever. I remain her enthusiast, her evangelist, her acolyte, and her grateful student. She taught me that cooking and storytelling make the most delightful coconspirators.
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All the vested interests and people who profit by war will - with the journals they control - resolutely oppose any reduction of armaments.
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I feel very comfortable shooting music, and I think you can see that.
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The things that motivated me at 21 don't suffice. Which is scary but really liberating in a way. It's taken me a long time to feel like, instead of being invited to the party with a bunch of people I don't know, that I actually deserve to be here.
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Every effective drug provokes in the human body a sort of disease of its own, and the stronger the drug, the more characteristic, and the more marked and more violent the disease. We should imitate nature, which sometimes cures a chronic affliction with another supervening disease, and prescribe for the illness we wish to cure, especially if chronic, a drug with power to provoke another, artificial disease, as similar as possible, and the former disease will be cured: fight like with like.
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Most meetings are too long, too dull, too unproductive - and too much a part of corporate life to be abandoned.
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It's healthy to have interests besides books.
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Everyone has a little bit of Howard and Chad in them. I think there's Christine in all men as well.
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The talking shows allow me to come out of my cave and that's why those shows go on for so long. I hate walking off stage. Sometimes I walk off and I miss them as I'm walking off the stage. I wonder if they'll let me go another hour. That's why I do it: to communicate, to get points across.
