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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The only way anyone's going to succeed is to build the product.
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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 can get really obsessive. I like writing many drafts, and I try not to because it is very time-consuming, especially when you're working on a novel. But I do like to take a story and reorder it, put things in different places. This allows me to see things in a new and sometimes surprising way.
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There are a lot of historical novelists who do the research about the clothes and maybe even the eating utensils, but they're basically taking modern people and putting them in old drag - it's sort of the 'Gone With the Wind' approach.
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You could say slowly but surely, the world is changing in a good way - equality in all forms is more and more part of the global conversation, and people are celebrating diversity and individuality.
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Learning should be engaging. Testing should not be the be all and end all. All students should have a broad curriculum that includes the arts and enrichment. Students should have opportunities to work in teams and engage in project-based learning. And student and family well-being should be front and center.
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Quite often governments are one way and the people are another.
