Henry Rollins Quotes
I don't really think about the audience much. I think of myself. Let me dig myself out of that one.
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I've only gotten directly offered two or three movies, ever. I don't have the luxury of being able to say no a lot, and I don't really have the luxury of just getting to pick and choose certain things. If I did, I probably would choose even more different roles than I've played.
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I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates.
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The thing about being an actor is that you're acting. It's not that big of a deal of to play someone different from yourself.
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I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.
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I'm a natural blonde!
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I was raised to be an independent woman, not the victim of anything.
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I never put out a history, I put out a dramatic history.
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Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
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All the times I've been lucky enough to be a part of a show that's actually gotten on the air, it's always that same mixture of excitement and utter fear.
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Novels are pirated all the time, but it's hard to imagine that you're at work and you open up the attachment that your brother sent you and it's the new Phillip Roth novel.
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We're right to say that a culture that can't tolerate free speech is... there are a wide range of positive human experiences that are not available in that culture. And we're right to want those experiences.
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Exhibitions are kind of ephemeral moments, sometimes magic moments, and when they're gone, they're gone.
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If Casey Stengel were alive today, he'd be spinning in his grave.
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My friends all say I'm going to be Secretary of State. But I don't see how that would be much different from the job I have now.
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And as I stumbled onto Eastern philosophy and Buddhism, it was the first time I had ever read any sort of philosophy that really made a tremendous amount of sense. What I liked that was missing from my experience of Christianity growing up was a sort of acceptance, a sort of being OK with being imperfect and not focusing on the sin.
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As for memes, the word 'meme' is a cliche, which is to say it's already a meme. We all hear it all the time, and maybe we even have started to use it in ordinary speech. The man who invented it was Richard Dawkins, who was, not coincidentally, an evolutionary biologist. And he invented it as an analog for the gene.
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I'm the ugly sister. I'm the fat one. I'm the transvestite. I have had those mean things said about me at least twice a day for the last five years. It's horrible, you know? But I can brush that stuff off.
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I have heard Obama officials say more than once, 'You will have blood on your hands if you publish this story.'
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Google's architectural model around broadband and services and so forth plays very well to the powerful devices and services Apple is doing. We're a perfect back end to the problems that they're trying to solve.
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Fiction is often a much-needed step back that gives you the distance to see things more clearly; it's very often better at explaining why events happened as opposed to just what happened.
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Religion is just an alternate way of reading reality - you read material reality, and then you add on an extra layer of religiosity that deepens that understanding of reality. Some countries have lost that capacity, or dismissed it or marginalized it.
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Who has more pockets than a magician? A boy. Whose pockets contain *more* than a magicians? A boy's.
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I don't really think about the audience much. I think of myself. Let me dig myself out of that one.
