Henry Rollins Quotes
What I've found is that a lot of soldiers are surprisingly apolitical. Their reality is, "Today I'm going to leave the gate for twelve hours, and I'm going to make it back to the dining facility by sundown with the arms and legs of me and my buddies intact."
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There is no must in art because art is free.
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The inventory goes down the elevator every night.
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I like to say it's an attitude of not just thinking outside the box, but not even seeing the box.
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I don't care what people do. I don't care how people remember my albums. I do them for my own reasons.
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The harsh reality is this: to have influence in the world, you need to be willing and able to reward your friends and punish your enemies.
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Helen Keller became deaf, dumb, and blind shortly after birth. Despite her greatest misfortune, she has written her name indelibly in the pages of the history of the great. Her entire life has served as evidence that no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as reality.
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I've been alienating my public since I was 20 years old.
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What I've found is that a lot of soldiers are surprisingly apolitical. Their reality is, "Today I'm going to leave the gate for twelve hours, and I'm going to make it back to the dining facility by sundown with the arms and legs of me and my buddies intact."
