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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I haven't read more than two pages, but my mother is a George Martin super fan.
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Nature is forever arriving and forever departing, forever approaching, forever vanishing; but in her vanishings there seems to be ever the waving of a hand, in all her partings a promise of meetings farther along the road.
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Because if a woman's heart was free a man might have hope.
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What I generally get from being in Africa is a sense of warmth and openness. As a stranger, you are always welcomed into people's homes and people are always offering you food. That generosity is incredibly touching.
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Over the last few years, Greece has been in the world spotlight for all the wrong reasons - because of its economic crisis, and then because of the refugees from Syria.
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I like how I write better than how I speak.
