Henry Rollins Quotes
The opportunity to write for the 'L.A. Weekly' has been one of the better breaks that has come my way in a long time.
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The greater the conceptual significance of a literary product, the more it should be assumed that it is based on an idea that determines the whole, and that the deeper consciousness of the time to which it belongs is reflected in it.
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My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member of the municipal library, and she brought home two or three books a week for me. They could be dime novels or Balzac.
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For me, I love California. I feel like it's my second home in that I moved out by choice at eighteen. It gave me opportunities that I didn't have anywhere else.
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The Hungarian ministry begged the king earnestly to issue orders to all troops and commanders of fortresses in Hungary, enjoining fidelity to the Constitution, and obedience to the ministers of Hungary.
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If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing what you can to keep telling your stories; you don't stay on the one. Keep moving forward and doing what you can to tell whatever story you can tell, be it via writing, be it via filming it.
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Our relationships with our computers are almost sexual, they're so close. They're just such a huge part of our lives.
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When I got my Oprah money, the first thing I bought was a really nice electronic bidet toilet seat.
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I think actors have a choice of drawing attention to themselves or living on the outskirts.
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What I particularly like about Broadway is the camaraderie and the friendship of other people in other shows. Everybody knows you're opening and cares about you. There's a real village atmosphere.
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It's very important not to lose your temper in a courtroom, or in anything else you're doing.
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In the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination - and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past - are real and must be addressed.
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I've worked my whole life and never missed a deadline.
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Trent likes to record guitars direct, whereas I've always preferred playing through an amplifier.
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Though there is such a rich tradition of culture and arts, I have never been invited to perform at a concert in South India.
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The kind of thing I'm good at is knowing every politician in the state and remembering where he itches. And I know where to scratch him.
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Thus, races arose from an original coding which God pulled out as needed for adaptation to the environment.
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And my music is always such a release of what I feel inside, an impulse.
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Art is born of humiliation.
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The truth is, I don't have any problem with journalists - I count some of them as friends - also some of my heroes are journalists, I'm a big fan of Robert Fisk - great people or crazy people who are prepared to stand up for what's right.
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I don't really like vegetables. But I'll eat them.
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If you have the material it will form itself as a kind of connective tissue.
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The opportunity to write for the 'L.A. Weekly' has been one of the better breaks that has come my way in a long time.
