Henry Rollins Quotes
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I didn't know much about golf growing up.
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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Since the moment I could hold a pencil, I have spent nearly all day every day writing. And there is not an age group that I have not written for. You can read me from birth 'til death.
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I was the 'no one understands me' teenager. But I think truly I've realized now that I didn't understand a thing myself. So I just had some livin' to do.
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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I always tell people I want to see the world through His eyes, and I want people to see Him in me.
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I found the brick-making process fascinating - how, after being burnt, the brick would come out strong. I liked to sit on the stack of bricks and look as far as I could. I'd do the same at a hillock near my school - just sit on top at leisure and enjoy the feeling of being on top of the world.
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The essential problems remain the same... The kids I write about are asking for the same things I wanted. They want two contradictory things. They want to be the same as everyone else, and they want to be different from everyone else. They want acceptance for both.
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Kids have a weird honesty, especially in their reaction to things where a lot of older people who have matured have lost that.
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When you grow up in the country in France, you have small horizons.
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This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system and it's expensive to boot.
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I think Mickey Gall's going to be really good.
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Conservatives have always wanted border security before we had immigration reform.
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If you're looking for the safe choice, you shouldn't be supporting a black guy named Barack Obama to be the next leader of the free world.
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I know what falling off the cliff means. I know from being considered a very bright kid to being considered like a moron and dropping out of school.
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People may get tired of hearing from me, but I don't think I'll ever run out of things that I want to write about.
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To open yourself up and open your heart, it's a scary thing in life, let alone a movie.
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It's my job, too, to keep up with pop culture and what the kids are into 'cause you don't want to sound like an old man trying to write for kids. I spend a lot of my time spying on them.
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Basically I don't care what people think of me. I'm not in the communications business.
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Far more than any other power, imagination is what sets human beings apart from every other species on earth.
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The general rule is to not jump into moving in with whoever you're nutty for. But, you know, I was in a bad relationship, and the day I got out of it, I moved in with Ciera, and she ended up becoming my wife.
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Breathe in, breathe out, move on.
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Nothing moves me more than the history of the United States.
