Henry Rollins Quotes
I have been curious about Haiti for many years. The history of the country is as fascinating as it is turbulent.
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All I came to Los Angeles with was a dream. No one from my family ever left Ohio.
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Experience has taught me that any kind of political grouping is oppressive. It's the blind mass that crushes the individual.
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All performances are different. I don't think it's necessary to compare one with another. I am just me playing the role of Lear. You're bound to get a Holm approach to it, whatever that may be. I just got out there and did it. I'm very much a doer in my acting.
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All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.
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Just because you're of the same sex, what difference does it make? Get married to whomever you want.
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Love is not just tolerance. It's not just distant appreciation. It's a warm sense of, 'I am enjoying the fact that you are you.'
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The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.
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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
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From early morning to late at night, it's such an interesting life, and I'm healthy and free, and that's not so easy with a family.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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I was made fun of a lot in middle school. When I was in seventh grade, the popular kids paid the most popular guy to ask me out.
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Who will protect the public when the police violate the law?
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If it's really beautiful weather, sometimes I might take a helicopter out. I got my license in 1999.
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I'm really Wallace Beery in 'The Champ.'
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I thought that I was going to have to pay them to do what I wanted to do, that was how much fun I was having. You're 20 years old and you're hanging out with rock stars and going to fabulous parties, and then you talk about it!
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I may even show up behind the camera. I love to put things together; I love to give direction. I have a great eye for pace.
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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.
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Look at Gwyneth Paltrow and my favourite, Kate Winslet. No one ever says, 'Oh, she's making a comeback.' To my mind, I just went on maternity leave and reported back to work.
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'Trilogy' was more of a claustrophobic body of work. Before it was released, I hadn't left my city for 21 years, and I had never been on a plane, not once. I spent my entire life on one setting; that's probably why pieces of the album feel like one long track, because that's what my life felt like. It felt like one long song.
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I do enjoy working with writers.
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And I want to rise up, throw my arms open for a vast embrace, address an ample, luminous discourse to the invisible crowds. I would start like this: "O rainbow-colored gods. . .
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I never knew my father. He was never married to my mother; he was never a part of my life. It was just my mom, my brother and me.
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I have been curious about Haiti for many years. The history of the country is as fascinating as it is turbulent.
