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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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'm a runner first before anything else.
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I'll talk about these things, but it's just, you know, you only get so much time and I'm much more interested in what I'm going to be doing next year than in something I did 10 years ago.
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Anybody can do a deal. The tough part is doing the deal at the right time, being strategic.
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Yeah, I know what the shrinks say: "Conflict and conflict resolution are the mainstays of human intimacy." That fatuous little axiom may be true, but it presupposes that human intimacy is a desirable thing. I have never been nearly as happy with somebody else in the room as I am when I’m by myself. It seems to me that loneliness is a small price to pay for peace and quiet.
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My mother and father come from that post-Depression, middle-of-World-War -I kind of thinking that says, 'Find a practical job. You know what I mean, Mr. Big Shot? So, you can sing a song ...'
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There are people who can achieve huge success in life, while adding a bit of fun and a splash of colour to this increasingly grey world.
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Sin can read sin, but dimly scans high grace.
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I can never read this book, just like I can never see a movie that I wrote a screenplay for. I can read it and see it physically, but I can't accurately judge it. I'm too close to it. If I read it ten times I'll have ten different reactions.
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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.
