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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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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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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The thing that's great about those guys at Miramax is the Weinstein brothers. They are the two funniest guys I've ever met in my life.
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The least we desire from the institutions of the free world, and especially the US and the countries of the European Union, is that they appreciate our struggle for freedom. We want them to discharge their responsibilities towards vulnerable people and support them in the face of the cruelty of rulers who continue to kill.
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From what we understand about participation by women and minorities, we need to do a better job of exposing people early in their careers to STEM fields.
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I'm not an investor in Meerkat, sadly, or, Periscope - I missed both of those - however, I do have a lot of inside information.
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I don't know anyone who enjoys going to the hospital. To help remedy this, I got an idea to create what a Laugh Room in the pediatric ward of hospitals.
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My favorite movies are movies that I go in and I leave deeply affected. Whether I laugh really hard or whether I cry really hard, I just want to feel really affected in that moment.
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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.
