Henry Rollins Quotes
Most poets are elitist dregs more concerned with proving their skill with a dictionary than communicating ideas with impact.
Quotes to Explore
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I think it is a mistake to judge science by Nobel Prizes.
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You win some, lose some, and wreck some.
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There are staples to my show. I have to be conscious about switching things up because I know people who saw me last year will say, 'He did that last time.' But if certain things work, they work.
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Shakespeare is a wonderful language to speak, but it's also a world to get your mind into thematically.
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To my child's eyes, which had seen nothing else, Shanghai was a waking dream where everything I could imagine had already been taken to its extreme.
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An eating disorder epidemic suggests that love and disgust are being jointly marketed, as it were; that wherever the proposition might first have come from, the unacceptability of the female body has been disseminated culturally.
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There always have been funny women.
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Any one game in baseball doesn't tell you that much, just as any one poll doesn't tell you that much.
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I'm filming the next two installments of the 'Fifty Shades' movies back-to-back.
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I'm big into not drawing conclusions for people. I think that's what makes for the most exciting, compelling films. I get bored when the politics of the filmmaker are the subject of the film that I see.
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History is weirdly dismissed as not having anything to do with the present moment.
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When I was 17, I decided I was going to leave home.
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My senior year of high school, I was voted 'Wittiest.' So, several years later, I decided to try my hand at writing humor to see if I could be witty enough to make some money.
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I mean it's funny, playing music, how of course you want it to do well, you want them to like it, but it's not competitive like an election, it's the Olympics, it's not a Formula 1 race. The Billboard charts are just to show you what people like.
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I am a very musical person. I love music, and I don't just love Cape Breton fiddling, although it's my favorite.
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Who'd ever have thought that I'd be the face or the body of any kind of exercise at all.
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There's a saying, 'It's easy to write songs, but very difficult to write great songs.' I'm going through that right now.
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The much-hyped Ares 1-X was much ado about nothing.
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My family's support system is fantastic.
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In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.
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History will prove that this is the end of the IRA.
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Most poets are elitist dregs more concerned with proving their skill with a dictionary than communicating ideas with impact.
