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 find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other school on the planet that develops improvisation to the high degree that you find in jazz music. So we have a lot of common ground.
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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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This obligation to move can be a burden to a player without strategic vision.
Garry Kasparov -
This period of blue monochrome was the product of my pursuit of the indefinable in painting which that master, Eugène Delacroix Romantic French painter was able to indicate even in his day.
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My mother is an actress, and she used to drag me from theater to theater and reading to reading.
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I love fresh citrus and always keep lemons, limes, and oranges on hand; they come in handy for spritzing up quickly grilled meats, seafoods, and vegetables, especially when followed up by a quick drizzle of extra virgin olive oil.
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I like the idea of someone else’s love safely sealed in a song or a book.
