Henry Rollins Quotes
When you see the Escalades and the Hummers driving down the street, at least in Los Angeles, this dry, flat desert with shopping malls, when you see someone driving one of those through this you're like, 'You are definitely part of the problem.'
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Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.
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If you're a novelist, as I am in real life, you're usually so desperate for any kind of feedback.
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I think there are a lot more important things than art in the world. But not to me.
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I hope that one day when I'll go back to Pakistan, I will build a university like Harvard.
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So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.
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The commonest error made in relation to poetry is that it consists simply in verse-making. Many confound the casket of meter and rhyme with the jewel of thought which it encloses, and, perhaps, in some instances, after close investigation, they have found the casket empty and turned away with feelings of disappointment and disgust.
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Acting has made me embrace my childhood. It's become some weird form of therapy. It's like I have a place where I can release all of these emotions. When I was playing Ira Hayes, I didn't have to think about the death of my parents directly. It's just there. I can blend it into Ira's character. I can use Ira's emotions as an outlet.
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You feel like you're really a part of a movement when you're singing Journey at a karaoke bar.
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I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment.
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I'm not a boastful person. I like my actions to speak for me.
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I hate remakes of TV shows - I didn't like the new Charlie's Angels at all - and I just don't see the point of going back and doing the same thing over again. Baywatch was fun and successful, probably because we didn't know what the heck we were doing.
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You'll hear 'Hippie,' or, 'Get a haircut.' I like it. I think it's funny because they think we've never heard that before. So, like, good one.
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I'd always heard stories about how Harpo Marx was the most talkative of the Marx brothers. I found it interesting that someone you never got to hear speak in films would never not speak in real life.
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In the nineties, it was common to see people who expressed themselves through one designer - the Jil Sander woman, the Martin Margiela woman. You saw her on the street, and you knew who she was.
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I don't think the woman in French 'Vogue' was an object. She was always a real woman.
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All my friends are Welsh, I speak Welsh, and I feel very Welsh.
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Offensive operations and hunting down the enemy is an integral part of any counterinsurgency approach.
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If there is one constant to my life, it is that you cannot tell me 'no.'
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If someone doubts our right to exist - be it on the hills of Umm al-Fahem or in Munich's beer halls, in Gaza's crowded streets or in the thick woods of Babi Yar - it's their problem. Proud states do not break into wails and crawl under the carpet when they discover someone doesn't love them.
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You will find the poet who wrings the heart of the world, or the foremost captain of his time, driving a bargain or paring a potato, just as you would do.
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How pleasant is the day when we give up striving to be young-or slender.
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I was the first Chicano to write in complete sentences.
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When you see the Escalades and the Hummers driving down the street, at least in Los Angeles, this dry, flat desert with shopping malls, when you see someone driving one of those through this you're like, 'You are definitely part of the problem.'
