Henry Rollins Quotes
If I had to live my life in anticipation of what others thought of me, little would get done.
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What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.
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For me, cerebral palsy wasn't the biggest deal, because I always had it. You know, you always work with what you got.
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I would do fragrance. I'm a fragrance fanatic.
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I've always been a history lover. I've spent a lot of recreational time walking around historical castles and estates, in Britain and Europe, and so I know what the real thing looks like.
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People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
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My role models were always the Pacinos and the Oldmans, the guys who get dirty with their characters, and I arrived in L.A. during the big boom of 'Dawson's Creek.' I was getting cast as the boy next door, or the friend of the jock. I thought, 'Did I really have to do all that studying?'
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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I think every girl's dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore.
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Fear obscures reason, intensifies emotions, and makes it easier for demagogic politicians to mobilize the public on behalf of the policies they want to pursue.
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I do not believe the American people are going to confuse hatred for passion.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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I am now faced with mortality. Definitely not the most generous move.
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I don't like to meddle in my private affairs.
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It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.
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I know about various fictional and folkloric vampire mythoses the way other people know about the personal life of celebrities.
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It is a process of finding the right music then planning a costume to fit that style of music.
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We're not aware of fame itself, we're not that kind of band.
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Sometimes you wanna be James Bond, and sometimes you wanna be Marlon Brando until you realize you can't be either!
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I'd say if you live in the United States of America and you vote for George Bush, you've lost your mind.
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We may excuse the spiritual poverty of our preaching in many ways, but the true secret will be found in the lack of urgent prayer for God's presence in the power of the Holy Spirit.
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Another thing to do with the blues is how they were recorded. They were done on the quick, and some of that stuff was made on wire, not even tape, let alone digital.
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If I had to live my life in anticipation of what others thought of me, little would get done.
