Henry Rollins Quotes
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I couldn't love a woman who inspired me to be totally disinterested. If I fell in love with a woman for an artistic reason, or from the point of view of my work, I think it would rob her of something.
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All reactionaries are paper tigers.
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When they are assailed by despair, young people should let universal concerns into their lives.
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You know, we don't have any decorative sprigs of rosemary; we're not placing little matchstick radishes onto an hors d'oeuvre... The food's gotta taste good. The concept's gotta taste good.
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I don't normally vote. I'm lazy and I never bought into the 'Every vote counts.'
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I had never done a roast, but I really wanted to, because it's so different from standup.
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In Iraq, many of my female friends were architects and professionals with a lot of power during the 1980s while all the men were at war in Iran.
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If your budget is in good shape and you are not indebted too much, you can do what the U.S. did at the beginning of the '30s - building railways, etc., but when you don't have that, you must be far more cautious.
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I love fashion, and that's how I express myself.
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The real problem is deflation. That is the opposite of inflation but equally serious to the borrower.
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Polonium is, frankly, pretty useless, and no country in the world except Russia bothered to refine it by the late 2000s.
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What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude.
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When I was teenager, Britney Spears was it - that was the pop world that was happening, and I knew I wasn't in it.
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Before we had the kids, my husband and I were traveling a lot and working and really enjoying our lives and each other. We both love the theater and books and travel and so we were really having a lot of fun.
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This medal goes to show that you don't always have to have the best facilities, the best organisation, the best of everything to achieve.
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Russia has always had a global history. Global history is a bummer. You suffer invasions of all different kinds. And Russia was not defended against them.
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Later in high school, I met Hillel Slovak, who was the original guitar player of the Chili Peppers, and we became really close. We had a band, and we didn't like the bass player, so I started playing bass, and I got a bass two weeks later.
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Great entrepreneurs focus intensely on an opportunity where others see nothing. This focus and intensity helps to eliminate wasted effort and distractions. Most companies die from indigestion rather than starvation, i.e., companies suffer from doing too many things at the same time rather than doing too few things very well.
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I listen to a lot of different kind of music. A lot of weird-ass music, like weird-ass, old Portishead.
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Countless people...will hate the New World Order...and will die protesting against it...we have to bear in mind the distress of a generation or so of malcontents.
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Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true.
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I thought when I... made my first big mistakes in public that that was really going to be the end of me. My parents cried. My friends were desperate.
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Without greater support for childcare, parents of young children may be forced to choose cheaper, poor quality care for their children or fail to provide it entirely.
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I simply cannot understand how any parent could kill themselves.
