Henry Rollins Quotes
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To live in New York is to see the world as it is to come.
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I've really enjoyed starting Quora from the beginning. It's really nice to have a new start to things.
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Being able to walk out of the studio after a week of intense recording and jump into a cold sea and sit in a hot spring and soak for a few hours completely resets the whole system. Really refreshing. For me, it's all about stepping out of the ordinary. Even psychically.
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Mankind's feeling of responsibility to create a decent life and make it worth living with dignity has always been stronger than the will to kill life.
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I loved Judy Garland. I thought she was such a classic beauty. I thought she was so endearing and charming, and I loved her voice. She was such a dreamer, and I think I was, too - and I am.
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I had always dreamed of winning Wimbledon and when it happened it was very stressful. It was more of a relief!
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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I'm the girl who - I call it girl-next-door-itis - the hot guy is friends with and gets all his relationship advice from but never considers dating.
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I don't want to look back and say, 'Yeah, I was really successful, but I failed at fatherhood because I wasn't there.'
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You need to get down among the people who are the dirtiest and dustiest, and the depravity, and you need to see Christ's light shining there.
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The latter 1940s and early '50s were a time of tense, explosive conflict, in the world at large and in the politics of our nation.
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If it feels right and I'm not going against any energy in myself or the situation, there would be no limit.
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People always say that you can't please everybody. I think that's a cop-out. Why not attempt it? 'Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.
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People ask how can a Jewish kid from the Bronx do preppy clothes? Does it have to do with class and money? It has to do with dreams.
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I've been at it since 1967, and I still love it. There is nothing quite like making people laugh.
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A manager should stay as far away as possible from his players. I don't know if I said ten words to Frank Robinson while he played for me.
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The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.
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Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.
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Helen Mirren is like the sexiest woman on the planet to me. She is. Just the way she goes about everything.
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The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one.
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If you feel like you're getting into a rut with a song, a night off usually fixes it.
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When you say 'comic book' in America, people think of Mickey Mouse, and Archie. It has a connotation of juvenile.
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An expert is a person who has few new ideas; a beginner is a person with many.
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I like the idea of someone else’s love safely sealed in a song or a book.
