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 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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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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Carey Mulligan and Felicity Jones are two of my favorites. I'm not so much younger than them. I like that. It's kind of aspirational.
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Music is an element that should be part and parcel of every child's life via the education system.
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I have always done things that made me happy. I work with people I like, and I do the job I like. I only see people who I like to be with. I have led a wonderful life.
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There was already a deep black wordless conviction in him that the way to avoid Jesus was to avoid sin.
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...All endeavours which are directed to a purely worldly end...contain within themselves the germs of their own corruption.
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And that's the way I have always lived, for the laughs – today. N-O-W. No Other Way.
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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.
