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 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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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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Second records aren't usually very good. Even Bob Dylan's was a bit disappointing.
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Obama reminds me of the black kid at a white school that don't nobody want to play with.
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I'm really funny now.
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Oh, rose that blushes with my love Please help me to compose The words I wish to speak aloud To one who'd make me proud If she would hold her hand in mine And both our hearts entwine..
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Secret: A private matter whispered abroad and never kept to oneself. By naming it a secret, we immediately indicate its presence. If we really wanted to keep secrets, we would not have a name for them.
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It's tremendously undemocratic in a democratic society when you deliberately disenfranchise thousands of people.
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I can't just wear whatever when I go out because somebody might want to take a picture. People are, like, taking pictures of me in my car when I'm driving. It's crazy. I kind of hate it sometimes.
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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.
