Henry Rollins Quotes
I can deal with people who watch me on stage but I am not good in communicating with people any other way than through my work.

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I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.
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I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
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Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don't believe too much into inspiration, only I'm waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It's a little too easy to say that.
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As far as Israel, I am not worried about the relations between Israel and the United States.
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Our house is a constant mayhem of music, noise, socializing and business. It vibrates life, as a house should.
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A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
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Bipartisanship is really tough to achieve when everyone on both sides is left with a bad, bad taste in their mouths.
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I would very much like to become a best-selling author.
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A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
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There are grave misgivings that the discussion on ecology may be designed to distract attention from the problems of war and poverty.
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You are an athlete when you're onstage. You can't get tired.
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I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings, and every time I look at them I see something different.
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I haven't chosen any party yet because people choose parties when they get older. When it's time, I'll look, and if I can't find one to join, I'll make another party.
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Just because I do a few comedy bits about gay people, that does not mean I'm out there promoting some anti-gay cause.
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One thing my family has shown me is that having a sense of humor is everything.
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That was one of the best, exciting things for me to play with them. They were very young and eager to go. I'd been playing with a band that was mostly old folks that had been together so long we couldn't do anything to excite each other.
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In 1975 I decided that there was no future in flying (airline jobs were impossible to get, and who wants a job where you are judged only by seniority?) and headed off to grad school.
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In my view, if you want to get ahead and build wealth, you have to get over your delusion that something only has value if you can measure it.
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So often, generalizations don't apply to Catholic voters. Catholics are concerned about the war, the economy, about issues like abortion, issues pertaining to the budget and funding Medicaid and Medicare and what happens to the environment.
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Borders are liminal spaces. Anyone worthy of the title of 'writer' is a border writer. We all are border people.
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I'm not saying that photographers are dumber than other people, but they are the folks who walk around with brilliant white lights in nighttime riots.
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Interestingly, however, we found that participants consistently underestimated their intake of the candies on their desks yet overestimated how much they ate when the candies were farther away.
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I can deal with people who watch me on stage but I am not good in communicating with people any other way than through my work.