Henry Rollins Quotes
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Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.
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Miss Sarzin was the best teacher I ever had.
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The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.
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Do I enjoy features? Yeah, I really do. Would I like to do some more features before I head to the barn? Yeah, probably. But I also love television. I love doing television because it's fast, and that I like a lot.
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It would be really hard to get serious about anything political today unless it was a joke.
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Everything has a purpose or premise. Every second of our life has its own premise, whether or not we are conscious of it at the time. That premise may be as simple as breathing or as complex as a vital emotional decision, but it is always there.
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Idealism, unrealistic idealism, is always contrasted with the reality of the people, of the man in the street. The details of daily life are always more convincing than the political fantasies of the earlier generations.
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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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If you're smart and you care about life, you'll take driving seriously.
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In the course of the reform, some new circumstances that we had not anticipated have appeared.
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It is our historical experience, that Hungary can only live in wealth and safety if Berlin, Moscow, and Ankara are on our side and also interested in our success - even if we do not always agree on certain questions.
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Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.
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In the long run, I believe that honesty is definitely the best policy. One can get away by being dishonest for a short term, but ultimately, honesty is what pays.
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For one country is different from another; its earth is different, as are its stones, wines, bread, meat, and everything that grows and thrives in a specific region.
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If I'm trying to please every craze fan, then I can't. Of course, we all want to please the fans.
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The quarterback is an extension of the coach and has a certain type of swagger mentality, on and off the field.
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You may dislike what somebody else has said; that is perfectly valid. You may not agree with what somebody else has said. But saying something cannot possibly amount to sedition.
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Yes, the upper reaches of society are still dominated by men.
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Drag shows are one of my favorite things in the world. As a straight man I love going to gay bars. People at gay bars just love to dance.
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America is not doctrinaire. It's hard for an American politician to come up with an ideological position that is permanently unforgivable.
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So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or good, we are human: and it is better, in a paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing: at least we exist.
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If we wanted to make it the way I imagined I knew that we would have to wake up earlier and start very early. So we prep like crazy. And the competition you have is like Avatar, you have Star Wars, you have all the big Marvel stuff. So if you want to come in the race, you know, don't be pretentious.
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It's refreshing to hear something that's pop but doesn't sound like Britney Spears.
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Respect is not a one way street
