Henry Rollins Quotes
I like it better that people aren't throwing stuff at my face and trying to fight me on stage. Like in the '80s, it was just aggravating all the time... I have scars from cigars and cigarettes on me, Bic pens, burns from cigarette lighters, all that.
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A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased.
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I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.
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For his own vindictive purposes, Jeffrey Sterling carelessly disclosed extremely valuable, highly classified information that he had taken an oath to keep secret.
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I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.
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Every burn on my body has had its own different personality. And all of them needed different things.
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I love things that people hate. I hate middle-of-the-road stuff. It never really interests me.
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When I got into college, I found what ultimately became my life's work. I couldn't sleep at night, I was so excited about it. So I'm attracted to people who play at that level. They actually want to play in their professional life.
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I'm obsessive. That's the word for me. I obsess – perhaps to the point where it's moderately dysfunctional. I tend to put a book through about 100 revisions. If anything, that's an understatement. If there's another author out there who does this sort of revision, I would really like to meet him. Maybe we could form some sort of support group.
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I don't necessarily think that installation is the only way to go. It's just a label for certain kinds of arrangements.
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Don't try to dress like me or wear your hair like mine. Find your own style.
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I don't want to be a poster child for cancer.
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We should not look at terrorism from the nameplates - which group they belong to, what is their geographical location, who are the victims. These individual groups or names will keep changing. Today you are looking at the Taliban or ISIS; tomorrow you might be looking at another name.
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The E.U.'s 500 million citizens enjoy the right to live and work in any of the Union's 27 member states.
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You never know what's going to play into what's worthy of getting encapsulated into a song.
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People either think I'm this totally savage, idiot-savant genius guy who's lucked out or they think I'm a super-manipulative crafty businessman, this kind of MBA guy who's spotted a gap in the market and knows how to create a product for it. It's flattering, but I've not got that much of a gameplan.
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I think that every male actor fantasizes with a boxing film.
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It's one thing for other people to see potential in you, and it's quite another for you to understand that and see it in yourself.
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In Washington, there's always an effort to label people.
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I accept what people say. I don't have time to dissect it.
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Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup.
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I like it better that people aren't throwing stuff at my face and trying to fight me on stage. Like in the '80s, it was just aggravating all the time... I have scars from cigars and cigarettes on me, Bic pens, burns from cigarette lighters, all that.
