Henry Rollins Quotes
Most poets are elitist dregs more concerned with proving their skill with a dictionary than communicating ideas with impact.
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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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Nationalism must now be added to the refuse pile of superstitions. We are now citizens of the world, and the man who divides the race into elect Irishmen and reprobate foreign devils (especially Englishmen) had better live on the Blaskets where he can admire himself without disturbance.
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When you are rowing well and hard, the rhythm of the stroke takes over. It drives your days and restores your nights. It imparts cadence and direction. You feel like you and the boats are one, you feel that no obstacle will put up any more resistance than the water does to your oars, you feel that hard work and grit and mental toughness will always win it for you in the end.
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If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.
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Well that would be nice but I am not complaining about things being hectic, it is great what I have been able to do, it's just that things get a bit much sometimes.
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I believe the President was enormously effective in small groups, small groups being anything under a hundred, where you could really communicate.
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Most poets are elitist dregs more concerned with proving their skill with a dictionary than communicating ideas with impact.
