Henry Rollins Quotes
August in sub-Saharan Los Angeles is one of the great and awful tests of one's endurance, sanity and stamina.
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The secret we should never let the gamemasters know is that they don't need any rules.
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There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.
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The muse is not an angelic voice that sits on your shoulder and sings sweetly. The muse is the most annoying whine. The muse isn't hard to find, just hard to like - she follows you everywhere, tapping you on the shoulder, demanding that you stop doing whatever else you might be doing and pay attention to her.
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I never miss a vote; I think that's the power of the people. A lot of people fought and died for us to have votes, for women to have votes in particular - your vote is your one weapon.
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Once an Armyman, always an Armyman.
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Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
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I couldn't care less about what anybody else has to say.
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I like pastels and lighter shades on darker skins. I feel like it lifts everything and accentuates being chocolate.
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And it wasn't until '84 when I was first asked to come to Sweden and do an album and concert tour.
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I'm incredibly impatient; I'd like to be less so, and more content with the now.
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I hope I'm building a record of being a good team player and not just standing for my principles but being willing to work for them. I think when you do that and you work really hard, people take notice.
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But when I hear a great song, I can't help but be inspired by it, regardless of whatever genre that song falls under.
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Architects feel empowered to give opinions about politics and sociology and philosophy without knowing much about it. Kind of in the same way that they think they can design furniture or fashion or utensils for dining.
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I want to let my fans get to know a little about me. I'm very thankful for everything they've done for me so, of course, I'm going to let them into my world a bit. But I really am a very private person, and I love kepping my life to myself - that's how I've always been.
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In general, the apparel industry isn't about continual process improvement or making the perfect piece of denim; it's about chasing trends.
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I have a house in the Connecticut countryside where you'll always find me, summer or winter.
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You’ll know what to say when the time comes. That’s the art, eh? What to say, and when to say it. And the rest is silence.
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If I were the government I would have a special brigade of gendarmes to keep an eye on artists who paint landscapes from nature. Oh, I don't mean to kill anyone; just a little dose of bird-shot now and then as a warning.
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Edgar Sawtelle is a boy without a voice, but his world, populated by the dogs his family breeds, is anything but silent. This is a remarkable story about the language of friendship—a language that transcends words.
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All I came to Los Angeles with was a dream. No one from my family ever left Ohio.
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I studied music at the most remedial level when I was a kid, through the Los Angeles public schools, with a little private instruction.
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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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It [live performance] is just very difficult. Doing an hour, hour and a half of live standup is an endurance test. You almost have to do it every day to stay up on it.
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August in sub-Saharan Los Angeles is one of the great and awful tests of one's endurance, sanity and stamina.
