Henry Rollins Quotes
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I am doing what I love; acting is what I love best after being a mother.
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Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
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There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.
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Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
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Writing can't be too calculated. My best writing is when I set it aside, move on. It's not when I'm crafting a sentence, thinking about what word should follow another.
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Eighteenth-century matrons would have never have dreamed of appointing a redhaired wet nurse for their precious offspring - redheads passed on their horrible characters through their milk.
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Boxing is one of the few sports that is one on one.
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I have a saying. 'Never judge a book by its cover'. I say that because I don't even know who Ozzy is. I wake up a new person every day.
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Emotional messiness is my reason for life. In acting, it's so important.
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Pummeling an answer out of someone never works. You cannot intimidate someone with aggressive language and think they'll be more forthcoming... that's a caricature of interrogation, part of the TV culture of what it looks like.
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If I could travel back in time, I'd bring back the entire Wu-Tang Clan.
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There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
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Banning paper and plastic and making shoppers carry their groceries home in their mouths like dogs is just the thing to make a little tin humanist in the Obama West Wing think he's admiral of the Uzbek Navy.
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When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.
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The best thing you can do for your body is sleep. It's simple. Cater to your body as much as to your mind. Your body, after all, houses your mind. You have to pay attention to your physicality as much as your mentality.
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When I was 16, I had a really big hit in the K-pop world. It was a hip-hop/R&B/pop song. I kinda strayed from that because of the writers I was hanging out with.
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If you are going to do something truly innovative, you have to be someone who does not value social approval. You can't need social approval to go forward. Otherwise, how would you ever do the thing that you are doing?
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Marx and Engels never talked about murdering the bourgeois. According to the old bourgeois concept, the judges were the ones who judged, and the executioners were the ones who executed.
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I have worries and fears just like everybody else. But I have every reason to wake up each morning and be very happy.
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It is so tempting to try the most difficult thing possible.
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I have often said that just as the French revolution, for instance, understood itself through antiquity, I think our time can be understood through the French revolution. It is quite a natural process to use other times to understand your own time.
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The moment I am aware that I am aware, I am not aware. Awareness means the observer is not.
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Virtue is nothing else than right reason
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The public library system of the United States is worth preserving.
