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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The ideas and practices of Franz Anton Mesmer, an 18th-century Australian healer, had spread to the United States and, by the 1840s, held the country in thrall. Mesmer proposed that everything in the universe, including the human body, was governed by a 'magnetic fluid' that could become imbalanced, causing illness.
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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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I love it in Warrington. The kids are settled and I've spent GBP10k on a new garden. If I run away it's like I've got something to hide, which I haven't. I'm a big fan of Warrington, but not a big fan of Warrington people at the moment.
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The idea that democracies could be vulnerable to demagogues is not a new notion.
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I’m obsessed by nature, I’m obsessed by the British countryside and I’m obsessed by the National Trust. Nature, Architecture and beauty all rolled into one.
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I write poetry to figure things out. Any time I’m trying to wrap my head around something, poetry is like a puzzle-solving strategy for me.
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Things change when you learn to loosen your grip. I think one way and the future is desperate. I think another way everything is in sight. Trees bend so branches don't have to break. We mend the wounds of our last mistake... I live one way holding onto the fence post. I live another way sliding off into space. Each life is loosely assembled... Birds swim, fish do fly. Proud man begins to cry. Birds swim, fish do fly. Things change, so why can't I?
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I like how I write better than how I speak.
