Henry Rollins Quotes
Life forgets me but will not let me forget Holds me down and tells me that I'm free.
Quotes to Explore
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Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.
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You want to find out what it is about you or what it is about your past and your lineage that's in you now, and whether you carry those traits and maybe what one's mission is to take it to the next level.
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I think film writing, you're thinking in pictures, and stage writing, you're thinking in dialogue. In film writing, it's also, you only get so many words, so everything has to earn its place in a really economical way. I think for stage writing, you have more leeway.
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I read fashion magazines all the time. It's fun, but I don't take it very seriously.
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I know the cadence of the language and the voice of Atlanta because I've lived here for so long.
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I'm neither a millennial nor a hipster.
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Rock will never be dead for me. Do I like a lot of what I hear on rock music radio? No, not for the most part. I'm not a fan of the regurgitated Pearl Jam and Nickelback crap that's the biggest thing in the Midwest. There isn't that big of a market for rock anymore. Every once in a while something happens and you like it.
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Having two kids, I don't get out to see stand up much anymore.
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If observed facts of undoubted accuracy will not fit any of the alternatives it leaves open, the system itself is in need of reconstruction.
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I haven't a clue what's going to happen next, and I can't wait to find out.
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I bought an electric scooter in sixth grade. Bankrupted me.
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I'm doing what I do for the right reasons. I love the music that I make.
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Then as everything, like I say, things started to come together, when things started to go our way, that's when you results started to come. I was no different driver. I was certainly learning every time I went in the car.
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Art is subject to arbitrary fashion.
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If they keep booing, and we keep winning, I don't care.
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We must be loyal to the forum of our government.
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As it defines itself, every society defines other societies. That definition almost always takes the form of a condemnation: the 'other' is the barbarian.
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I think it's really important to remind, reinforce people that their lives have value, you know? That their lives have worth.
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There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.
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We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don't like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red States.
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I always got nervous the nights we played in the World Series. First pitch, I was nervous. Then after that, forget it; I'd start playing.
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Australian troops had, at Milne Bay, inflicted on the Japanese their first undoubted defeat on land. Some of us may forget that, of all the allies, it was the Australians who first broke the invincibility of the Japanese army.
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A man can be so busy making a living that he forgets to make a life.
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Life forgets me but will not let me forget Holds me down and tells me that I'm free.
