Henry Rollins Quotes
Perfection. I have been waiting all my life to be with you. My heart slams against my ribs when I think of the slaughtered nights I spent all over the world waiting to feel your touch.
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All my life the only thing I've been good at has been climbing and throwing myself off big things.
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Islam was hijacked on that September 11, 2001, on that plane, as an innocent victim.
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I still have a young attitude.
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Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
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I think of myself as a plain human being who happens to be an American.
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I don't really give into all that philosophical talks that 'money is not everything.'
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What I have done in my nine year career was just a glimpse of what I can do.
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Most geniuses are weird.
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Mama tried to save us from the streets, but the streets were too strong.
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We women are going to bring change. We are speaking up for girls' rights, but we must not behave like men, like they have done in the past.
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The greedy man is he who habitually eats too much, knowing that he is injuring his bodily health thereby, and this is a vice to which not the gourmet but the gourmand is a slave.
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What I have to work with is the life that's ahead of me right this minute.
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There's to be a film about my life. I can give this as an exclusive now. Meryl Streep was offered the part but, no, I wanted Kate Winslet. Kylie Minogue is playing me in middle age. In old age, I'm not sure who's going to play me. I haven't got there yet. Perhaps Cate Blanchett. Or Jacki Weaver.
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Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.
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There should be a place and the space for all pop.
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Twitter is the marriage of full-tilt narcissism and full-tilt voyeurism that has finally collided in 140 words.
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Henceforward I am the truth's. Be it known unto you that henceforward I obey no law less than the eternal law. I will have no covenants but proximities.
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I've never been interested enough to have a career trajectory. I've never had any ambition or thought of what I should be doing or had any idea of what I'd like to do. Never. And still don't. And if something comes along, I say 'Fine.'
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Tobacco is the plant that converts thoughts into dreams.
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A man may as well open an oyster without a knife, as a lawyer's mouth without a fee.
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I was like, 'Did I win Roland Garros? What happened?'
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Hope we're going to win,' that's exactly what I saw. It wasn't a team that went out to beat you every day.
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Perfection. I have been waiting all my life to be with you. My heart slams against my ribs when I think of the slaughtered nights I spent all over the world waiting to feel your touch.
