Henry Rollins Quotes
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Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.
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A 2014 survey found that 74% of law-enforcement agencies reported antigovernment extremism as one of the top terrorist threats. Just 3% of those agencies viewed the threat from Muslim extremists as severe.
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I'm not trying to prove anything for the right or the left. Which gives me freedom to make jokes about either side, too.
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In writing a little tragedy, 'The Gaol Gate,' I made the scenario in three lines, 'He is an informer; he is dead; he is hanged.' I wrote that play very quickly.
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In most organizations, change comes in only two flavors: trivial and traumatic. Review the history of the average organization and you'll discover long periods of incremental fiddling punctuated by occasional bouts of frantic, crisis-driven change.
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Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.
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I had my moments when I got very frightened that I would not recover.
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I think the success of democracy is not really police security; it's the presence of a broad middle class. The stronger the middle class of a people is, the less you have to worry about one group coming in and exploiting the democratic process for its own ends.
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Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.
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I never read reviews - I never have. I've never read message boards, either. I'm just not interested in it in any way - I'm not interested in it inflating my ego, and I'm not interested in it improving my self-worth. So, I don't read them.
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People ask what my goal is. I don't have a goal.
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The people suffering most from the Taliban were Afghans.
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Whence it is somewhat strange that any men from so mean and silly a practice should expect commendation, or that any should afford regard thereto; the which it is so far from meriting, that indeed contempt and abhorrence are due to it.
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I never liked you, and I always will.
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A house is kind of scary.
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As a human being, anger is a part of our mind. Irritation also part of our mind. But you can do - anger come, go. Never keep in your sort of - your inner world, then create a lot of suspicion, a lot of distrust, a lot of negative things, more worry.
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In Fall Out Boy, I noticed that I wasn't putting all that much soul into it. It was just kind of screaming, I guess. I was just dying to get out of there!
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I have no intention of ever writing beauty tips on how to make an African-American nose look slimmer or Asian eyes look bigger. That's degrading. Asian eyes are what's beautiful about you and what makes you different.
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I want to do all types of music, music for all people. I want my music to be encouraging, to help people.
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I've never thought about songwriting as a weapon. I've only thought about it as a way to help me get through love and loss and sadness and loneliness and growing up.
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I'm interested in producing more TV shows.
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There is a lot of silence in watching somebody trying to remember things.
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The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.
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The more you own, the more it owns you.
