Henry Rollins Quotes
One of the odd enjoyments in life is to be alone in a room full of people. To have them there as unknowing human filler in your wide shot.
Quotes to Explore
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
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I'm not saying I'm a paragon of virtue, but it's hard for me not to be honorable.
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Most of us believe that women can do what men do. The challenge is to convince employers, legislators, mothers, that men can do what women do.
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If it weren't for how esoteric the art world likes to be, I would love actually to play the music in the shows, painting the music that influences me most.
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The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal and my own work.
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I'm very good friends with my former coaches. We speak on the phone a lot.
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You don't realize how much you use your credit card not even to buy things. It's a card you get so you can navigate society.
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The West has been able to bring Afghanistan a much better health service, better education, better roads, a better economy, though some have benefited more; some have benefited less from that economic well-being in Afghanistan.
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I like to dress up every now and then.
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I think I've done everything on 'The X Factor' apart from the cleaning.
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In a changing global landscape, Europe will be more and more an indispensible power.
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My second novel began after my family moved from New York City to North Carolina, and I watched my son walk into kindergarten at a school in which he was the only Jewish child out of 600 students - and this in the middle of the Bible Belt.
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The obsession required to see a feature through from concept to release is not a rational thing to do with your brief time on this planet. Nor is it something to which an intelligent person should aspire.
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When you go away, you see where you come from in a different light. I see Scotland, and the rest of Britain, as much more exotic than I used to.
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Psychologists have hitherto failed to realize that imagination is a necessary ingredient of perception itself.
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The facts of science, as they appeared to him Heraclitus, fed the flame in his soul, and in its light, he saw into the depths of the world.
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Excuse me while I light my spliff, good God I gotta take a lift.
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When a man's cause is good, it will sufficiently plead for itself, yea, and for its master too.
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The first award that I recall having received was in the form of a scholarship when I was studying in the 5th standard. I was granted this scholarship for achieving academic excellence, and it continues to be one of the high points in my life.
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God orders a man to do all he can to save his life.
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We cannot have that relationship if we only dictate or threaten and condemn those who disagree.
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In the country of the blind the one eyed man is king.
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One of the odd enjoyments in life is to be alone in a room full of people. To have them there as unknowing human filler in your wide shot.
