Henry Rollins Quotes
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The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
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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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For as long as I could remember, the person in E23 pasted the same Halloween decoration, a witch with a giant wart on her crone's nose, but whenever kids rang, the tenant wouldn't answer. At first, kids figured they'd just missed the guy: bad timing. But it seemed impossible that all of us missed him every year.
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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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But the one thing that I did do was establish myself as a good actor.
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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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In fact, the best thing we could do on taxes for all Americans is to simplify the individual tax code. This will be a tough job, but members of both parties have expressed an interest in doing this, and I am prepared to join them.
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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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The first movie I literally ever made in my life was about two guys playing Stratego with each other. I had all my friends dressing up like the military characters in the game. So 'Battleship' is really my second board game turned movie!
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[When her husband said her earnings as a married woman belonged to him:] I cannot persuade myself that that which I invent - create, in fact - can belong to anyone but myself! I wish that women could be dealt with, not mercifully, not compassionately, nor affectionately, but justly; it would be so much better - for the men.
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All disgust is originally disgust at touching.
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To be able to feel the lightest touch really is a gift.
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I don't want to manipulate actuality; I want to record it.
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I like how I write better than how I speak.
