Henry Rollins Quotes
I think Perry Ferrell put independent music on a very good path with Lollapalooza.
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And on election night I'd go down to city hall in El Paso, Texas and cover the election. In those days, of course, we didn't have exit polls. You didn't know who had won the election until they actually counted the votes. I thought that was exciting too.
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Life is fleeting, and permanence in this world is something we all strive for. The best way to achieve permanence is through philanthropy.
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As an actor, you look for roles that can constantly challenge you and you can learn from.
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Egyptian comedy has a very, very old tradition. Our theater and our movies are just, like, amazing. And Egypt is kind of like the Hollywood of the Middle East. I mean, we had cinema maybe decades before the other Arab countries ever got independence.
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I introduced legislation in the Senate to prohibit President Obama's amnesty. The House of Representatives stood up and led. It took the legislation I introduced and it passed it. But the Senate Democrats stood as one uniform block and said, 'No, we will do nothing to stop amnesty.'
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I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.
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I always put on M.A.C. Prep and Primer before anything.
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Authors are sometimes like tomcats: They distrust all the other toms but they are kind to kittens.
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My hair is such a statement that it's like a neon sign asking for trouble.
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I do what I do to inspire people. They can't be inspired by an ego, a big-headed person. It doesn't work. It doesn't match. And I really want to be that role model for people, for children. I want to be real. To my fans, I want them to view me as a real person. Don't put me on a pedestal. I'm human. I make mistakes, I cry, I hurt - just like you.
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I think many people are terribly afraid of being demoted by the Darwinian scheme from the role of authors and creators in their own right into being just places where things happen in the universe.
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The experience of poetry could bring my mother back to me. Poetry offers a different kind of solace - here on earth.
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I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.
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Hmmm... I never get the answer I think I'm going to get.
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The bad boys get all the best lines.
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Love can defeat that nameless terror. Loving one another, we take the sting from death. Loving our mysterious blue planet, we resolve riddles and dissolve all enigmas in contingent bliss.
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Jung Chang was the first person to tell a grand historical, political story through a personal narrative.
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My own belief is all men should be feminists, and with enthusiasm.
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Armstrong described the lunar surface as 'beautiful.' I thought to myself, 'It's not really beautiful. It's magnificent that we're here, but what a desolate place we are visiting.'
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I am not scared to take a chance.
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Once you follow a path of nonviolence and social justice, it won't take you long before you come into conflict with the culture, with the society. You can't know what is at stake or how much it is going to cost you until you get in the game. That's the only way, and the level of cost is equal to the level of involvement.
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If they [Playboy] could promise me it wasn't camera-between-my-knees kind of shots, I would do it. I would do topless. I think it's empowering. Though if my mother had a real big problem with it, I'd have to say no right now.
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I think Perry Ferrell put independent music on a very good path with Lollapalooza.
