Henry Rollins Quotes
It'll destroy you if you try to make it mean anything to anyone but yourself.
Quotes to Explore
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I think comedy has evolved like every art form, and people probably do less standing around and telling jokes, and more things that have to do with reality.
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Rock music is not meant to be perfect.
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When one takes action for others, one's own suffering is transformed into the energy that can keep one moving forward; a light of hope illuminating a new tomorrow for oneself and others is kindled.
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A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions.
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Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.
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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
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I have to prove myself in a lot of ways - as an actor, as a person, as someone who can handle pressure.
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I got beat up sometimes in the girls' bathroom.
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My style is kind of eclectic and I don't like to do the same thing over and over again. I like to have fun and explore myself so you won't see the same design.
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In the Senate, there is a wide spectrum of views on foreign policy.
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I have a few uniforms – depending on whether I'm going to a college campus or meeting a head of state. But clean and easy works best for me.
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I'm a rock and roll singer.
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I think that people in general appreciate honesty and not trying to cook something up just to fit a mold that would be beneficial for you. I never made music like that.
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Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds.
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Hector Lavoe is the greatest of all time. Marc Anthony is the second greatest.
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Believe it or not, lots of people change their majors and abandon their dreams just to avoid a couple of math classes in college.
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I've been writing since I'm five years old. I've been writing books since high school - junior high, high school. I write every single day. I never thought I'd be published.
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I surf - that's the one thing I make time to do. I definitely surf a lot, but when you're working 15 hour days... all I want to do is get home to my baby.
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Any active sportsman has to be very focused; you've got to be in the right frame of mind. If your energy is diverted in various directions, you do not achieve the results. I need to know when to switch on and switch off: and the rest of the things happen around that. Cricket is in the foreground, the rest is in the background.
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The ability to connect and influence people, that's the job of a leader. And we're all leaders at some level.
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I had to stop drinkin, cuz I got tired of waking up in my car driving ninety.
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The superior man has a dignified ease without pride. The mean man has pride without a dignified ease.
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The hardest thing to get is true emotion. I always believe you need to earn that with the audience. You can't just tell them, 'Ok, be sad now.'
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It'll destroy you if you try to make it mean anything to anyone but yourself.
