Henry Rollins Quotes
The perpetrators of the actual bad stuff that does real and lasting harm to people, like leakage of industrial chemicals into water systems, seem to get not so much as a second glance; the bloviation from media pundits and think tanks creates false problems that waste time and energy debunking.
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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
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My idea, as the whole world knows, is that the capitalist system now doesn't work either for the United States or the world, driving it from crisis to crisis, which are each time more serious.
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The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.
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You mustn't upstage the bride.
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We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.
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We are all different human beings, and we all have different backgrounds, and we stem from different social strata. That is what defines how you hear people talk, how you want to quote them when you speak. We all have different fears and doubts and complexes and this is what shapes the way we see other people. Especially characters.
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You want maybe to be that guy or one of the few guys who can help develop the game in the United States.
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There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
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So they all went away from the little log house. The shutters were over the windows, so the little house could not see them go. It stayed there inside the log fence, behind the two big oak trees that in the summertime had made green roofs for Mary and Laura to play under.
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We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
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I mean, when you're a pioneer and you are at the forefront of an offensive, you're going to be the most optimistic person.
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Members of great teams confront each other when they see something that isn't serving the team.
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Republicans have never been good at public relations.
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To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition.
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As an actor, you're naked emotionally; you're revealing yourself emotionally.
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When you're never home and traveling, you don't play videogames.
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My life is gardening, cleaning around the house and power washing.
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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
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You have to face the fact that I have no reputation as a composer; I have my reputation as a songwriter and a performer-and that opportunity came this summer, when I was invited to perform at the Lincoln Centre festival in New York... three nights.
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Your real courage shows best in the hour of adversity.
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I get to sing and act and write and create and produce for a living and share art with people, and I feel like a piece of that is in honor of those who came before me.
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All I've really ever done is write since I was 17, so I don't know anything about anything. For me to do a novel, I have to talk to people who know things. And what keeps me in suspense is that I am a crime aficionado.
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The perpetrators of the actual bad stuff that does real and lasting harm to people, like leakage of industrial chemicals into water systems, seem to get not so much as a second glance; the bloviation from media pundits and think tanks creates false problems that waste time and energy debunking.
