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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After high school, I went to the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point for a year, and I studied musical theatre. By that point, I was like, 'This is what I want to do.'
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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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Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).
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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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A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
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I'd love to do something with somebody like James Blake.
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Prohibition of substances which give pleasure to people does not work. Addiction is a health problem, not a moral one, and there are many proven strategies which can reduce its burden.
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During the Cold War, the United States took its friends where it found them. If they were willing to cast their lot with us, from the Shah to Gen. Pinochet, we welcomed them. Democratic dissidents like Jawaharlal Nehru in India and Olof Palme in Sweden got the back of our hand.
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Can't trust a fascist-truth is always your first sacrifice to the welfare of the state
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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.
