Henry Rollins Quotes
When you title yourself, you immediately lend yourself to all kinds of pretension
Quotes to Explore
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We shouldn't let anti-science zealotry shut down the ability to produce low-cost, quality food for billions across the globe.
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Loretta Lynn, Tammy Wynette, Dolly Parton and I were the first female headliners, where we would book our own opening acts. Before that, it was a standing joke that it was more like we had 'pretty little girl singers' opening for a male headliner.
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Dark matter is interesting. Basically, the universe is heavier than it should be. There's whole swathes of stuff we can't account for.
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The worst thing that we could do is raises taxes. It would only hurt the economy.
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I want to tell her that I can't pull her down. I want to tell her that she has to let go of my hand in order to swim. I want to tell her that she must live her own life. But I sense she already knows that these options are open to her. And that she, too, has made her choice.
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Real travel is not about the highlights with which you dazzle your friends once you're home. It's about the loneliness, the solitude, the evenings spent by yourself, pining to be somewhere else. Those are the moments of true value. You feel half proud of them and half ashamed and you hold them to your heart.
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All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them.
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I love how the soccer guys just fall when they get kicked and go baby crying.They try to explain to the referee like he's their mother: "Wah! Did you see what he did?" Then they get back to playing soccer again.
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They take the paper and they read the headlines. So they've heard of unemployment and they've heard of bread-lines. And they philanthropically cure them all by getting up a costume charity ball.
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Philosophy ... should not pretend to increase our present stock, but make us economists of what we are possessed of.
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You don't govern men who don't have religion, you shoot them.
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Since the French Revolution Englishmen are all intermeasurable one by another, certainly a happy state of agreement to which I forone do not agree.
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We sit in the mud... and reach for the stars.
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As far as standup, everybody has a vehicle they are driving. If what you do works, it's like playing golf. If you can master that one swing over and over again, you will be successful. That's what standup is. You have to have a central move and it has to be yours. You have to own your comedy, own what you do.
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I can't be bothered anymore about giving songs titles.
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Faith begins where religious pretension ends.
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I think those kinds of games are going to make me a better pitcher. Without my command, I just worked harder to do the job, to keep my team in the game.
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When you title yourself, you immediately lend yourself to all kinds of pretension
