Henry Rollins Quotes
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While criticism of Israel is legitimate and justifiable, it cannot be an excuse - in any way, shape or form - for anti-Semitism.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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Venus favors the bold.
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We all know how funny Morrissey is. Actually, you know what? I say that sarcastically. His songs are some of the funniest songs I've ever heard in my life. I mean, really. I mean, not that the 'Girlfriend in a Coma' is, like, really funny.
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It's weird how people were always asking us, 'Are you real? Are you joking?' That seems like something Americans care about a lot. You can't answer the question 'Are you real?' If we're anything, we're documentary fiction.
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'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
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That's a real secret. You can trust God. I feel I love the Lord with all of my heart, and he will not put more on me than I can bear. And so I always say, 'Lord, I trust you with me.' So I figure, anything that happens in my life, I must be able to bear it, or he wouldn't allow it to happen.
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New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.
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I always look to play flawed characters. I'm not very interested in playing somebody that's just, you know, the very nice one or the attractive one, or whatever, which a lot of female parts can just be written that way.
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I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person.
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When you don't know what the band looks like, it puts the emphasis on thinking and taking the music and message more seriously.
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Modes are infinite, and laws are infinite.
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I'm very pro-American - my entire family escaped poverty in Italy because they rightly believed in the American dream.
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I am not interested in slickness for the sake of slickness.
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It was just two energies between two people, you can't prescribe that.
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I think I am smart unless I am really, really in love, and then I am ridiculously stupid.
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Visually speaking, nothing calls Shakespeare to mind like Hamlet holding Yorick's skull.
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Readers want to visualize your story as they read it. The more exact words you give them, the more clearly they see it, smell it, hear it, taste it. Thus, a dog should be an 'Airedale,' not just a 'dog.' A taste should not be merely 'good' but 'creamy and sweet' or 'sharply salty' or 'buttery on the tongue.'
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I would prefer to battle the 'I'm special' feeling not by the thought, 'I'm no more special than anyone else,' by by the feeling, 'Everyone is as special as me.'
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There is a deep sadness to American poverty, greater than the sadness of any other kind. It's because America has such an ideology of success.
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What's cool is that Oprah is the same person on stage and in front of a camera as she is off stage and behind the scenes. She speaks the same way on camera as she does off camera.
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Private equity firms working closely with venture capitalists and technologists may be able to unlock assets that others have not leveraged and build technology cultures to iterate on solutions that make these assets more productive.
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The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
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As miserable as life may be I hold it pretty precious
