Henry Rollins Quotes
America is a rough room and you don't know what might come your way, so you have to be prepared for almost anything.
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
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A lifetime of low calories has come naturally to the longest-lived people in the world... in the Japanese archipelago of Okinawa.
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Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.
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I joined the swim team when I was 12, and I was the worst kid in the pool - I was put with a group of 7-year-olds.
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I have a terrible fear of travel. Just before we go, I start to panic and tell my wife I don't want to go. It's ridiculous. But actually it's only when it's somewhere I've not been to before.
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When you're making a pilot, what you're mostly thinking is, 'Please let this be a real job, please.'
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I never really got paid for 'Tell It Like Is,' but I look back at it and say God knew what he was doing; he probably figured that if I had got money back in them days, I wouldn't be here now. That's okay. I'm here. And I'm still singing the song.
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No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.
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You shouldn't have to have money to have a luxury fragrance.
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Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.
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Wherever I go, people recognize me, call my name, cheer me.
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I didn't want to do something typical.
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Figure out who you are.
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The Matrix is top secret. There isn't much that can be said right now.
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I will openly admit that I've never really followed hockey. Given my New England upbringing, I have always adhered to the Celtics, Patriots, Red Sox, Bruins mantra of professional sports fandom, but hockey was definitely the lowest sport on the totem pole - even when the Bruins won the Stanley Cup.
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The Internet's like one big bathroom wall with a lot of people who anonymously can say really mean things. It's fine, I believe in freedom of speech and I think people should think what they want, but I don't care to hear it.
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When I started law school I was shocked to learn that our legal system traditionally had the man as the head and master of the family. As late as the '70s and '80s when we were fighting for the Equal Rights Amendment, states like Louisiana still had a head and master law.
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I've always found the rain very calming.
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If I could prove by logic that you would die in five minutes, I should be sorry you were going to die, but my sorrow would be very much mitigated by pleasure in the proof.
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The beauty of Captain America is that you didn't have to come from a distant planet, like Superman, or he didn't have to be born into a family of billionaires like Bruce Wayne. He happened to be in the right place at the right time, and someone gave him a magic potion, and he grew muscles and became a superhero.
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We could do something set in the 21st century, where I travel around to lots of different places and we talk to different ethnicities and lots of different racial and religious minorities, so it's not just the black-and-white America; it hasn't been that since the '90s.
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Mort Meskin was a consummate professional, dedicated to his work. A great talent.
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In fact, I don't even know myself. That is the big secret of the story. That there is no story.
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America is a rough room and you don't know what might come your way, so you have to be prepared for almost anything.
