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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Throughout history, self-styled arbiters have taken it upon themselves to decide the question of what can or cannot be the legitimate purview of art.
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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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Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don't know how to manage it.
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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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If! If! If! There were so many ifs in life, never any sense of security, always the dread of losing everything.
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No state on earth can afford to allow several authorities to co-exist next to one another.
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It is important for us to understand where we came from and how we got here because it would be very foolish of us to get off that horse we rode in on.
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You always feel like a hack and a fraud when you're writing. It's just how it goes.
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I doubt very much if The Beatles would have happened if it was not for Elvis.
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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.
