Henry Rollins Quotes
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As I've traveled around the country, it has surprised me how many times I've heard people in small businesses use that word 'saved.' I believe many small businesses would not have had access to credit and would not have survived without the $50 billion that we were able to put into the market.
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If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.
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My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent.
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Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
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It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.
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If I can put it together, I've got an opportunity to win.
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Anti-religious sneers are a hallmark of perpetual adolescents.
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I'll talk about these things, but it's just, you know, you only get so much time and I'm much more interested in what I'm going to be doing next year than in something I did 10 years ago.
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If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.
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Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.
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But I like to think an athlete is an athlete.
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I love 'Homeland.' I think it's such a well-done, well-acted TV show.
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Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.
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Seeing Anonymous primarily as a cybersecurity threat is like analyzing the breadth of the antiwar movement and 1960s counterculture by focusing only on the Weathermen.
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What has been forgotten is that there were major intellectual breakthroughs in the 1960s, thanks to North American writers of an older generation. There was a rupture in continuity, since most young people influenced by those breakthroughs did not enter the professions.
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The red carpet is not something I really know how to work. It intimidates me. I feel very tiny.
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People in great institutions are occasionally credulous.
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Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.
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There is no life without sport and no sport without competition.
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Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
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I enjoy changing; I think it's more fun to try something different than to just do what you did last time. As an artist, you just want to keep creating, keep finding a place that really inspires you that feels fresh and new, and keep it exciting.
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The only risk we run is by doing nothing.
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The music I really like to get off on is the old rhythm 'n' blues and rock 'n' roll stuff... that's what I really dig. And I also dig to sing ballads as well. And I also dig writing my own songs. I was just trying to find a way of integrating the whole thing, taking a look at the total picture.
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I like how I write better than how I speak.
