Henry Rollins Quotes
Always knowing you're going to die And until then knowing you've got to live.
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The horror genre is my personal favorite. But then again, I was the kid who read coroner books for fun.
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Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your natural talent, there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.
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A slice of hot, buttered toast is the perfect meal. It's not too much and not too little, and it gives you just the right buzz.
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If I could go the ballpark and play the game for three hours and then go home? It would be awesome. But that's not the case.
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With 'Dazed and Confused,' I got the high school experience I didn't get to have.
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It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us - dreamers and indolent... It is good to begin life poor; it is good to begin life rich - these are wholesome; but to begin it prospectively rich! The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.
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Certain words now in our knowledge we will not use again, and we will never forget them. We need them. Like the back of the picture.
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The feeling of losing oneself in somebody's arms, yet at the same time finding oneself there, is irreplaceable. Nothing compares to the intensity of that feeling.
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Can anyone be so foolish as to believe that there are men whose feet are higher than their heads, or places where things may be hanging downwards, trees growing backwards, or rain falling upwards? Where is the marvel of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon if we are to allow of a hanging world at the Antipodes?
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Never run before God gives you His direction. If you have the slightest doubt, then He is not guiding. Whenever there is doubt-wait.
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When people use that stream of consciousness, it's kind of just a term they use for anything that looks slightly different on the page.
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The Israelis have a lot of influence with Congress, and in some cases they are able to buy influence.
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You don't need fancy sneakers to run fast
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I have an organization called BLIND [Beautiful Love Incorporated Nonprofit Development], so named because even though my interest is in the black community, because that's where I grew up and that's where I'm most skilled in fixing things, it doesn't end there.
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I think this concern about a jobless recovery at this point is a bit premature,
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It is fear that makes you believe that you are living and that you will be dead.What we do not want is the fear to come to an end. That is why we have invented all these new minds, new sciences,new talks, therapies, choiceless awareness and various other gimmicks.
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[On being asked how it felt to be the first female conductor of the Boston Symphony:] I've been a woman for a little more than fifty years, and I've gotten over my original astonishment.
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It's good to have a little cushion. But it's not going to be easy.
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I'm here, got no choice. But you, you should be telling people.
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Knowing that "me" is inextricably linked to blackness, [I try to enjoy] the process of expanding beyond the expected boundaries set by existing culture, norms and media.
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Knowing that your sense of fashion and the culture it's connected to is valid really makes it a stronger thing for you.
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Always knowing you're going to die And until then knowing you've got to live.
