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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Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to look at Haiti from a psychological perspective.
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Black English is something which - it's a natural system in itself. And even though it is a dialect of English, it can be very difficult for people who don't speak it, or who haven't been raised in it, to understand when it's running by quickly, spoken in particular by young men colloquially to each other. So that really is an issue.
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Many people - and I think I am one of them - are more productive when they've had a little to drink. I find if I drink two or three brandies, I'm far better able to write.
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As I matriculate my way down the field of life, I will never forget this moment and you wonderful people who helped make this day possible.
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When you're dead weight, in the right position, you win. And in reality, you wouldn't see someone my size kicking seven martial arts experts and winning.
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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.
