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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I don't think a lot of actors talk about it, but there's usually a process where you essentially purge yourself of the character that you played prior to the movie.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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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'm having a really hard time with this retirement thing and not having wrestling.
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I meditate two hours a day, and every year I do one big long meditation course. I love it, and I'm really into it.
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You have to be willing to give a lot to be in a relationship with me because a lot of the time it's about me.
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The whole military structure in Haiti that existed until the early 1990s was put in place by the American occupation. At the top there were Southern white officers, who led an army that crushed the indigenous resistance - the cacos. A high-ranking U.S. officer said when he arrived, "To think these niggers speak French!" Later, Haitian officers attended the notorious School of the Americas at Fort Benning. The threat from the U.S. is something that is always hanging over people's heads: If we don't behave, we'll have occupation again.
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These parks are our life's work, not the clothing chains we created, selling people clothes they don't need.
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If I had to live my life in anticipation of what others thought of me, little would get done.
