Henry Rollins Quotes
I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things.
Quotes to Explore
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I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
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The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.
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There is sometimes a peculiar confusion in the West that equates progress to whatever is recent or whatever is new, and it is time we understood that progress has nothing to do with the chronology of an idea.
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I learned that if you're going to be a troublemaker, you don't want a ton of witnesses, because there's inevitable fallout from living like you're in 'Lord of the Flies.'
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I think going from doing TV and straight plays to Shakespeare is weird enough because you have this heightened language, and you are telling a story through metric poetry. But I think music is that place beyond poetry.
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You don't know fear until it's 7 A.M. and freezing cold on live television, and you're not sure if Justin Bieber is going to kiss you or not.
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Even among those who I would not count as 'friends,' I have met many people online who have simply commented on my work or are interested by what I do.
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I always look for the weirdest note to land on. I felt that that was the least I could do for the great musical traditions which I've spawned.
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My co-founder Dylan Smith and I left our junior year of college to move to the Bay Area. To the horror of our friends' parents, we actually had two other friends drop out of college to work on the product. The four of us were just working non-stop growing Box.
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I never work from an outline, and often I don't know how the story will end.
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Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.
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I think it's every actor's dream to play a character that's really odd, and you know no one wants to play himself.
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The trouble with organizing a thing is that pretty soon folks get to paying more attention to the organization than to what they're organized for.
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Sometimes I feel 15; other times, I feel fully grown and mature and handling all my business. It can waver from day to day, hour to hour.
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An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
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Life as a poet and actor truly became full circle as I stood on stage as host of 'Verses & Flow' and lived in both of these outfits. It was one of the best experiences of my professional life.
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Before Eminem, the idea that there would be a white rapper that anybody would really check for was fantastic or amazing or impossible.
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I actually don't have a single regret, professionally or domestically. I planned it that way.
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Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs.
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I love all things Christmas.
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I challenged things that needed to be challenged at Purdue.
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The two things that I require for anyone who's around me: you need to love food, and you need to be able to laugh.
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They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.
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I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things.
