Henry Rollins Quotes
I like people. Rightwingers don't. They like business, they don't care about people. I like education, they seem not to care much about it.
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We've made some good beginnings with the New START Treaty, but a lot more can be done.
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I've certainly not got any famous people's numbers on my phone. It's just not my thing, really.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one.
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Our concept of governing is derived from our view of people. It is a concept deeply rooted in a set of beliefs firmly etched in the national conscience, of all of us.
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I live in Hollywood, California. It's absolutely nothing like Absaroka County, Wyoming. For me, it's a great escape and I really enjoy it.
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As for sex, well, I mean sex is a perfectly respectable subject as far as Shakespeare is concerned. I mean, all history is love and violence.
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I fear that the rising personal bankruptcies and repossessions are the first signs of bigger problems to come and personal debt - Gordon Brown's legacy to millions of Britain's families - will hang like a millstone around the neck of the British people for years to come.
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What sort of person you grow into should not be achieved by default, and often that's exactly what happens to kids. I see literature as a method of guidance, information, and contemplation, and consider it the greatest compliment possible when a reader tells me that a book of mine really made him/her think.
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Not a day has gone by in my life when I haven't thought about death.
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If I've been indulging in rich foods, a cleanse is a wonderful way to hit the reset button.
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They never ask the celebrities why they don't wear their own clothes on the red carpet.
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I was aware of a lot of my friends being into things I wasn't into. Like sarcasm. It had never been a part of my family - they still don't use sarcasm.
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I have no knowledge of myself as I am, but merely as I appear to myself.
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I didn't start writing my own books until I was 40.
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In pageants, you are evaluated from head to toe and it's obviously all about looks, and as vain as that is, they can also bring you lots of opportunities to do amazing things.
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It is Trump who plays with the tax code to pay no taxes; it is Trump whose Trump-brand products are made overseas by cheap labor; it is Trump who hires undocumented workers from Poland to work on his projects, then refuses to pay them minimum wages.
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Certainly there are bubble-like valuations of certain companies, but I don't think anyone out there believes that we're going to go back to doing business the way we used to do business.
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I've always been an optimistic guy, to tell you the truth.
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It seems that truth is progressive approximation in which the relative fraction of our spontaneously tolerated residual error constantly diminishes.
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Some people seem to sort of have a gut for hiring. I literally had a gut that was exactly the opposite. So whenever I thought someone would be great, it was sort of the opposite.
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The value of life is not in its duration, but in its donation. You are not important because of how long you live, you are important because of how effective you live. And most people are concerned about growing old rather than being effective.
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I'm nice because, when I was growing up, so many people weren't nice to me, and I remember how that felt. And I don't want to make anyone else feel like that. I value nice.
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I like people. Rightwingers don't. They like business, they don't care about people. I like education, they seem not to care much about it.
