Henry Rollins Quotes
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I consider myself as a free spokesman for the people.
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Being a celebrity, I don't even have to talk.
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Captain Cook discovered Australia looking for the Terra Incognita. Christopher Columbus thought he was finding India but discovered America. History is full of events that happened because of an imaginary tale.
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It's not that I don't want a fast car. I like the speed. I'm just not the type of person who finds a sports car a sexy car.
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Baking is my pastime. I just love creating things. But it's not what I want to do for a living. Acting is what I want to do.
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It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.
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Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.
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Entrepreneurs and rowers show characteristics of curiosity and wanting to learn.
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Events at home, at work, in the street - these are the bases for a story.
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Hong Kong girls have a genius sense of style. I came back to the States thinking no one here has any individuality. Or cute enough socks.
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The two things you cannot do effectively on stage are pray and copulate.
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People must not do things for fun. We are not here for fun. There is no reference to fun in any Act of Parliament.
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I've been actually really very pleased to see how much awareness was raised around bullying, and how deeply it affects everyone. You know, you don't have to be the loser kid in high school to be bullied. Bullying and being picked on comes in so many different forms.
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I think in spring, we don't want to wear makeup, we don't want to wear a ton of clothes, we just want everything to be easier.
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Fighting in the air is not a sport. It is scientific murder.
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There are really three parts to the creative process. First there is inspiration, then there is the execution, and finally there is the release.
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This is why fiction is an art, and life is not - how much more affecting is the lie than the truth.
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The idea that Americans favor politicians who either remind them of themselves or can imagine what their selves are like because they too have struggled and sung the blues, is, like very best theories of human behavior, immune to falsification by mere evidence.
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Telling computer guys that they need to have permission to quote things is like having to tell little children about Death.
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I think it had something to do with my love of music, especially rock music.
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I think the thing that makes Indiana basketball special is that they have incredible teams, both college teams and pro teams, and they're all about grit.
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The Fed's policy choices can always be debated, but the quality and commitment of the Federal Reserve as a public institution is second to none, and I am proud to lead it.
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Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.
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Songs sung under duress are often very powerful.
