Henry Rollins Quotes
I do think that Americans are poorly served by their media, at times extremely poorly served by their elected officials who are non responsive to majority feelings and cut off to a certain degree from the affairs of the world.
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In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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Sometimes your parents are the ones with the biggest mouths of all time.
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I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written.
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I don't want to talk about negative, dark things. The only thing I've got against stuff like Marilyn Manson is, they make unbelievable videos and unbelievable images.
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More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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Our best thoughts come from others.
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Millions of us, myself included, go back generations in this country, with ancestors who put in the painstaking work to become citizens. So we don't like the notion that anyone might get a free pass to American citizenship.
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When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
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My core belief is that if you're complaining about something for more than three minutes, two minutes ago you should have done something about it.
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It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.
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The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
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I think I'm a good judge of character.
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Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches.
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I love Johnny Cash, and I respect Johnny Cash. He's the biggest. He's like an Elvis in this business, but no, he's never been the rebel.
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I'm a runner first before anything else.
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More than anything, I think the best thing you can do as an artist is just stay as true to yourself as possible and hope that your fan base will appreciate that.
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I have over a hundred clocks. I've got fancy clocks and clocks from all over the world that people made for me.
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What I've been surprised by is not how different people are, but how similar they are. There are certain types of Airbnb people, and they are in every city in the world - it's just that in some cultures, there is more of a generational divide.
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I do think that Americans are poorly served by their media, at times extremely poorly served by their elected officials who are non responsive to majority feelings and cut off to a certain degree from the affairs of the world.
