Henry Rollins Quotes
If it were a choice between me getting killed or one of my friend's kids, I would happily take the shot.
Quotes to Explore
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It's hard to find an emblem of cultural, national pride that burns as bright as Israel's success in classical music.
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When something happens far back in the past, people often can't recall exact details. Blame depends upon point of view. There may be a villain, but reality is frustrating because it's often ambiguous.
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I love rap because it talks about pain that comes authentically from the ghetto. It moves me.
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Gossip can be entertaining: occasionally, I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.
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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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Increasing inequality in income distribution in this country has broader policy implications, and there is also the growing problem of perverse incentives that result from executives receiving grossly disproportionate compensation based on decisions they themselves take.
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Singing in Yiddish was a great thrill for me and came about through Joe Papp, the founder of The Public Theater.
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When I was in college, I used to love to watch football on Sundays.
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Japan is the largest creditor country in the world, so we have made contributions to the stability of international markets and we want this IMF meeting to confirm that we will continue to contribute.
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I remember the absolute, joyous freedom I felt when I first went to college: I had no bedtime, no curfew, no rules - I loved it. I was in charge. I couldn't believe I didn't have to answer to anyone.
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I'll take my destiny, whatever that may be, but I'm going to fight for my dignity and my honor.
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I am going to Rio with a chance of a medal.
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Judges who take the law into their own hands, who make up constitutional 'rights' in order to strike down laws they oppose, undermine the people's right to have their values shape public policy and define the culture.
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X-rays revealed that some people were born without a corpus callosum, and they seemed just fine.
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Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.
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The battle of Austerlitz is the grandest of all I have fought.
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I believe that the Chinese people as a whole love to make investments in real estate.
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Atlanta embraced us. We have so much respect for them, and they have respect for us.
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We can see cities during the day and at night, and we can watch rivers dump sediment into the ocean, and see hurricanes form.
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I can travel with music. I close my eyes, and I can travel all over the world with music. And one after another, stories come to me, and I just record them.
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I think there's a lot of mythos about what's required in acting.
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You either go through your life working for someone and getting a paycheck - and it can be a damn good paycheck, and I am not complaining as someone who has always been a salaried employee - or you can go out and become an entrepreneur.
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If it were a choice between me getting killed or one of my friend's kids, I would happily take the shot.
