Henry Rollins Quotes
When someone asks you, 'What's punk?' my reply is, 'If you have to ask, you're never going to know.'
Quotes to Explore
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The first show I worked on was 'In Living Color.' I think 'The Daily Show' was the culmination of having that point of view - being able to look at this third rail in our society.
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I always tell audiences when I talk about writing: Writing isn't something I do; writing is something that I am. I am writing - it's just an expression of me.
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If I hear a lie in my life with my children, with my wife, my work, my audiences, I want to annihilate myself, vaporize myself and wipe myself off the face of the earth.
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When I am writing a story it feels as real as the life I am experiencing off the page. It's an emotional illusion, I guess.
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I write songs about things that I'm simultaneously trying to not think about.
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I feel really lucky to get to do comedy, and music, at all. I want to do as much as I can.
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Laws must be clear, precise, and uniform for all citizens.
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If you want a strong society, it has to be inclusive. If you have to push a boulder up a hill, do you want 10 people or 100? If you weed out colour or gender, you get 10.
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If you saw me without makeup, you wouldn't recognize me.
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My friends call me 'Dolittle One' [a reference to her physical stature and affinity for animals].
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I heard Davey Havok has a brand of eyeliner out now... its AFI-liner
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We can all be more consistently involved in missionary work by replacing our fear with real faith.
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I had so many unsold murder pictures lying around my room...I felt as if I were renting out a wing of the City Morgue.
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I really try to divorce myself from any thought of possible use of this stuff. That's part of the discipline. My only purpose while I'm working is to try to make interesting photographs, and what to do with them is another act - an alter consideration. Certainly while I'm working, I want them to be as useless as possible.
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I'm kind of horny, conventional methods of making love kind of bore me.
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Kids these days are kind of going back to Tupac and Snoop Doggy Dogg as examples of people that stand for something.
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Only a developed society, for example, only a strong democratic system in modern conditions can create a climate in which any manifestation of terrorism is unacceptable and can also make the state itself stronger.
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It was such a challenge to do. I had to deliver the city of New York!
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My job consists of basically masking my contempt for the assholes in charge, and, at least once a day, retiring to the men's room so I can jerk off while I fantasize about a life that doesn't so closely resemble Hell.
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Most fears of rejection rest on the desire for approval from other people. Don't base your self-esteem on their opinions.
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Some people aren't comfortable with being comfortable. Some people really want to be pushed and find people that they can pull something out of you that you didn't know you had, and you can scare yourself.
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When someone asks you, 'What's punk?' my reply is, 'If you have to ask, you're never going to know.'
