Henry Rollins Quotes
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I didn't want to leave Newcastle, but that's football.
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
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I guess becoming an adult and learning how to survive on your own is exciting.
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Marriage is a definite no-no. I am totally married to my company. Emotionally, my mother fills up the void in my life. So there it is. My company is a spouse I will never cheat on, and my mother completes me as a son. I think I have a full family unit of my own.
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Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again.
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Growing up, I'd just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck.
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I never made a movie I would not take my family to see.
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You had eight years before President Trump, a situation where the opposition party basically ran in opposition to the president on a platform of thinly based racism. That doesn't mean that the politicians themselves were outright racist, but when charges of birtherism came up, no one repudiated it.
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The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
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Life is more important than 'what film I do next.'
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The presumption of innocence, the benefit of the doubt, walking without worrying - these should not be hallmarks of white privilege. They are human rights - human rights - that should be enjoyed by all.
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If you want to do something, what does it matter where you are ranked?
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I'm a magpie in my fiction, taking whatever looks shiny and curious to line the nest of my story.
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If I say I've got two versions of Word - that old one from 1982 that's perfect, with zero defects; or the new one that's got all this cool new stuff, but there might be a few bugs in it - people always want the new one. But I wouldn't want them to operate a plane I was on with software that happened to be the latest greatest release!
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My best advice is to not start in PowerPoint. Presentation tools force you to think through information linearly, and you really need to start by thinking of the whole instead of the individual lines.
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People with a lot of money don't dress as well as people who have to make do, who have to be inventive. Those are the people who are always more interestingly dressed, I think. Everything I do, I do with gut instinct. If I think too much, it won't come out right.
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These people are amazing. It's so emotional I was thinking about wearing waterproof mascara.
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Injecting some confusion stabilizes the system.
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Many hooligans discover to their shame that they have scruples; they have roots and, greatest disadvantage of all, they have hope. The fathers superior of the order do not try to influence their children in Satan; they merely shake their heads in sorrow. They know that the apostate must work out his own damnation.
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A tree may always be known by its fruit, and a true Christian may always be discovered by their habits, tastes & affections.
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My mother passed away, my marriage ended, and I moved. Those are some pretty big things to let go of. But I find that if you hold on to something too tightly, you strangle it and yourself. If you don't let go, and let things go through you, it's toxic - physically.
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Her life-that was the only chance she had-the short season between two silences.
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My feelings for you shame me into silence.
