Henry Rollins Quotes
Joe Strummer, Johnny Rotten, and Ian MacKaye were all people who really made me see things differently.
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I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
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Black culture has been a huge influence in my life.
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I feel there's enough seriousness in the world without seeing it in the theatre.
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The devil made me do it.
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There isn't much in the way of pure communist spirit, because the whole nation seems to be engaged in capitalistic enterprises. Much of the country still operates under government control.
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It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.
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I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing partner.
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With a focus on records and making money, you tend to miss a good story.
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Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.
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I love the fact that everyone's trying to be good-looking in L.A. - then I turn up and I get work.
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Artists and art institutions have to learn how to play hardball. A democratic society needs a democratic art and we have a right to demand it.
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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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On the issue of abortion, I'm ever on the fence, or, at most, an inch or two to either side.
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If you're a Republican woman, you're mostly on your own when it comes to support from traditional women's groups.
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I invite people to read the hundreds of positive articles instead of getting affected by the occasional outburst from a troll.
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That's one of the great things about comedy: we can - and should - say the things that other people aren't supposed to say. If we didn't do that, if we didn't push against those limits, we'd just be standing around onstage and yelling.
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The thing about the South is we accept our history. We don't push it under the rug.
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I never go wild with nails.
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I feel like comedy had a boys'-club label when we were starting.
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We first fought... in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.
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Not until the human heart is stolid to poetry, the human eye blind to beauty, not until the intellect ceases its quest for truth and conscience finds its quietus either in universal defeat or in triumphant success, will organized religion cease to be.
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This is a very important project for the southern end of town, ... Most of the people here are familiar with the problems here with the bridges.
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Next to life we express gratitude for the gift of free agency. When thou didst create man, thou placed within him part of thine omnipotence and bade him choose for himself. Liberty and conscience thus became a sacred part of human nature. Freedom not only to think, but to speak and act is a God-given privilege.
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Joe Strummer, Johnny Rotten, and Ian MacKaye were all people who really made me see things differently.
