Henry Rollins Quotes
But can a song stop a war? If Bob Marley and Bob Dylan couldn't do it, it can't be done.
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It is all very well and it sounds very seductive to say we are going to have harmonisation of regulations, but for example the way that funds are distributed around the states these days, you are positively penalised if you actually want to have say a lower payroll tax or sort of conditions.
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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.
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People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
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It gets very tiring when you are filming and then taken to a room to do school work. I never get any rest time. It is either work or school. Once you are an adult, you get to take a nap in between shots.
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If you have multiples of anything, you have the possibility of repetition. Repetition creates pattern and also unity. Put anyone in a room with a pile of similar objects and say, 'I want a pattern by 3 P.M. or no dinner.' Anyone would come up with a design. It is easy, fun and available to anybody. Most people just don't have the nerve.
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I love a lot of music that's considered folk music, but I also love a lot of music that's considered punk or considered rap. I don't mind being called a folk singer. But it seems a bit limiting. I want to be able to write whatever kind of song I want.
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Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.
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When you get successful, you can do pretty much whatever you want.
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You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.
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The NFL is my goal, not my dream. My dream is to have an impact on people.
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Marriage takes work - it doesn't just happen.
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I'm not a boastful person. I like my actions to speak for me.
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My involvement in the political arena is to make sure there's a place for culture.
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I'm interested in complexity, in the mathematical sense, as well as the idiomatic sense. The idea of emergence - that it's possible for complex patterns to arise out of many simple interactions - is fascinating.
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We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.
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I'm all about the supplements. I take fish oil every single day, as well as vitamin D, magnesium, B complex, vitamin C.
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I'm pretty good at sticking to what I know. You don't see me social commentating on health-care or presidential debates. I talk about what I know because I'm petrified of being wrong.
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I didn't think that college math was for me. I didn't think I'd be able to hack it. And that perception of math not being for girls, not being for girls who see themselves as socially well adjusted has got to change.
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As I plotted 'Blueprints,' I realized that ageism against women is most obvious in the field of entertainment - and that I needed a TV show in my book.
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I am a data hound and so I usually end up working on whatever things I can find good data on. The rise of Internet commerce completely altered the amount of information you could gather on company behavior so I naturally drifted toward it.
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I've done literally 100, 150 different characters. Some of them have only appeared for a line or three. But the point is, every sound I can make has been harvested.
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If you can't go one way, there's many ways to get where you're going. So you just take a step back and see beyond the wall.
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But can a song stop a war? If Bob Marley and Bob Dylan couldn't do it, it can't be done.
