Henry Rollins Quotes
I mean Black Flag happened. I was lucky. I don't think I could have put together something with one percent of that oomph on my own.
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You don't move just because you want to go from this point to that point - the body has to be using the words as well as you vocally use the words.
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There was a windstorm in L.A., and the morning after there was no smog, and I could see the mountains. And I was like... 'There's mountains? Snowcap mountains?' That's insane; I've been there for thirteen years, and I've never seen that view before, seeing the mountains in the distance.
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Most people who went about saying a ghost had poked them with a brolly would be locked up somewhere.
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My reaction to everything in life is when it gets a bit complicated to water it down and make it simple again.
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If you get lazy when you're onstage, it shows.
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The real political life in Russia unfortunately is not in the parliament but on the streets and in the media.
Garry Kasparov
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We never did these kinds of loans that really started this mess, the subprime loans. We just never got into that business. We were enticed a lot of times to do so by a lot of Wall Street-type players, but I, frankly, never understood some of this stuff.
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It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
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When you get to 15 and most of your teachers are priests, there's bound to be a conflict.
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I was always a writer – working on campaigns was never a profession for me. It was something I did on the side, really, so the trajectory hasn't been a political operative who likes to dabble in writing and finds himself into stumbling on film and TV – that was always my goal.
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I've read that the ancient Chinese art of feng shui can bring a sense of peace, well-being, and positive energy to a home - same as beer.
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In Latin America, even atheists are Catholics.
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We have a history of great producers - ABBA and Max Martin - we have proof of people being successful from Sweden.
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Those who claim to have had happy lives seem to be silly fools.
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A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification.
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I'm not really one for fancy, big words and poetry, and the scriptwriters worked very hard on 'Paradise Lost' to translate it.
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Kids definitely go into bookstores after reading 'Twilight' and want something else like it.
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It was good for us, I suppose. Those kinds of times produce qualities in us that make us better for having had them. My parents were not getting along. My mother was quite intolerant of friendships that were being developed.
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We have to keep the momentum going in the economy. And we have to make sure that we give small businesses as much cash and liquidity as possible so they have the confidence to hire that next worker.
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Most Israelis have a sense, 'We just don't want to live in the Middle East anymore. We don't want it to be the Middle East. Were going to just build a wall or operate unilaterally' - not try to even use force as used to be the case to convince Arabs to accept Israel by convincing them that Israel is here to stay and then negotiating.
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I am one of the people who just doesn't enjoy watching myself. I wish I could! I've seen 'Deadpool' three times; the third time, it was enjoyable for me.
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Boston is a very proud franchise. The NBA misses them when they are not in the mix. They, along with teams like the Knicks and 76ers are a big part of the heart, soul and history of the league.
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He was annoyed 'cause I didn't say that he'd written one line of this song 'Taxman.' But I also didn't say how I wrote two lines of 'Come Together' or three lines of 'Eleanor Rigby,' you know? I wasn't getting into any of that. I think, in the balance, I would have had more things to be niggled with him about than he would have had with me!
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I mean Black Flag happened. I was lucky. I don't think I could have put together something with one percent of that oomph on my own.
