Henry Rollins Quotes
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I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.
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By the end of high school, I would do shows at the theater at night and then take the train home and go to school the next morning.
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The devil made me do it.
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If you grew up in my generation, you're going to be influenced by Run DMC, the Beastie Boys and also listen to Metallica - it wasn't segregated anymore.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
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I do love traveling, so I've been able to travel a lot.
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I had my moments when I got very frightened that I would not recover.
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It has been a great working experience with Sreenu Vaitla.
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I've been into every doo-wop there is. I think I went to the university of doo-wop-ology.
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The power should be in individual democracies in individual communities. It shouldn't be an oligarchy or some small group of elite. Power should be with the people and not with some politician or some heir to the throne or some madman.
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At the weekends, I usually have around 50 kids running around in my back garden. They are all friends of my kids. I know all their names. We have barbecues, put up tents, and play soccer. I love it.
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I don't have a problem with my image; it's other people who do.
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It's rare for me to read any fiction. I almost only read nonfiction. I don't believe in guilty pleasures, I only believe in pleasures. People who call reading detective fiction or eating dessert a guilty pleasure make me want to puke.
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I always want to become better. If never being satisfied is a problem, then I have it. At least it's a good problem.
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If Roosevelt were alive today, he'd turn over in his grave.
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It's not in baseball's interest or the players' interest to be taking this stance. It's the people's game.
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I go on giving interviews because I've been brought up to support the projects I'm involved in. When you've enjoyed working on a production, you want to do them a favour.
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Human potential is the same for all. Your feeling, 'I am of no value', is wrong. Absolutely wrong. You are deceiving yourself. We all have the power of thought — so what are you lacking? If you have will-power , then you can do anything. It is usually said that you are your own master.
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I believe that social change has almost reached critical mass. So many people have undergone personal transformation that their effect on society is having a geometric - not arithmetic - impact. This coalescence of energies brings about meeting, networking, and a sophistication in communications that is unprecedented in history.
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Some people fast, some people go on a cruise or visit a day spa. I get out in the woods with a rifle or a bow. That's my release.
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There's a wide variety of diversity, with people that have disabilities from R.J. Mitte in 'Breaking Bad' to Danny Woodburn being a little man.
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The biggest surprise for me, without a doubt, was that the first black people who came to the United States weren't the 20 who arrived in Jamestown in 1619. All of us had been taught that. The first African came to Florida in 1513. And the huge shock is we know his name, Juan Garrido, and that he wasn't a slave. He was free!
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Quite often governments are one way and the people are another.
