Henry Rollins Quotes
In the late summer of 1986, the band I had been in for five years stopped playing. Suddenly, I was on my own. This new state of bandlessness was, at first, traumatic. When your group breaks up, a lot of broken parts hit the ground.

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I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.
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I worry that my daughters are too taken care of.
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I certainly didn't reach out to my old assets and ask 'em how they're doing, although I would have liked to.
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'RoboCop,' when that came out, was like the best comic book movie ever, and it's not based on a comic book.
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A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions.
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A president who aspires to be recognized as a global leader should not personally stake out a foreign-policy goal, commit himself eloquently to its attainment, and then yield the ground when confronted by firm opposition.
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Producing all my own songs and refusing to go to the hot producer. That's the biggest risk I've taken so far.
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You're on your own in college, but you get sheltered a little bit more with the coaching staff and everything.
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I never sing in the shower either.
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Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.
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I'm a capitalist. I believe that people take risk, and there are rewards if they do well; they should lose if they don't.
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I don't recall ever desiring to go as fast as possible.
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Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.
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The young people who join extremist groups are clearly suffering from massive deficiencies in religious knowledge and are often politically gullible (when they are not attempting to salve pangs of conscience by cutting themselves off from a life of delinquency).
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Hip-hop is such a disposable art form from a business standpoint. It never treats its artists as art; it never treats its product as art.
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As the Cold War melts into history, our first concern should be the preservation and extension of human rights and democracy.
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Lots of male friendships begin as a cheeky snog. Or a little undercurrent of flirtation.
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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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The transition from painter to artist comes when you cross the line of painting what you see to painting what you feel about what you see.
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I come from the golden age of hip hop when all the greats came on the scene.
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A person who can break wind is not dead.
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In the late summer of 1986, the band I had been in for five years stopped playing. Suddenly, I was on my own. This new state of bandlessness was, at first, traumatic. When your group breaks up, a lot of broken parts hit the ground.