Henry Rollins Quotes
When you are young, there is so much ahead of you, it's like the Saharan desert. You can't even see across it.
Quotes to Explore
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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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I think blogging is a muscle that most people wear out.
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You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.
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I tend to want to put my fingers over my ears and not hear all of that, not hear that there are so many fans.
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The thing I find frustrating about rock music is, how different can you make an acoustic drum kit sound, an electric guitar and vocals? It's very stuck, whereas with electronic music, new sounds are being created.
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A man's got to do what a man's got to do. A woman must do what he can't.
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Ice-T in the music has done some outrageous things.
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I know my life story sounds too extraordinary to be true.
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There's nothing mathematical to my writing. It's a feeling.
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It is up to us to make the right choice and the right decisions.
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When you see violence in movies in general, it's very quick and painless, which isn't what it's like.
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I grew up in a working-class Israeli family, which was feminist only in its female-dominated structure.
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An effective human being is a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.
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Played tennis for years. But you can't improve at tennis after you're 50. You get to be in your 40s, and suddenly you're a doubles player.
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A lost but happy dream may shed its light upon our waking hours, and the whole day may be infected with the gloom of a dreary or sorrowful one; yet of neither may we be able to recover a trace.
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I always loved Hanks in 'Philadelphia' and 'Forrest Gump' and watching how versatile he was. That shaped my impression of what someone was able to do. Of course, everything De Niro came up with was always something I was taken by.
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As long as there have been elections, there have been attempts to keep eligible people from voting.
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I have a close association with Gen. Petraeus... What you get in Dave Petraeus is a very unique officer, a combination of intelligence, extraordinary depth of knowledge and understanding.
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This living hand, now warm and capableOf earnest grasping, would, if it were coldAnd in the icy silence of the tomb,So haunt thy days and chill thy dreaming nightsThat thou wouldst wish thine own heart dry of bloodSo in my veins red life might stream again,And thou be conscience-calm'd - see here it is -I hold it towards you.
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Writing a book is as difficult or as easy as any other job. Everyone's job is difficult. So to fetishize difficulties in writing as something extra-difficult or something very privileged - I don't buy that at all.
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Biographies are no longer written to explain or explore the greatness of the great. They redress balances, explore secret weaknesses, demolish legends.
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You'd better watch where you go, and remember where you've been
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When you are young, there is so much ahead of you, it's like the Saharan desert. You can't even see across it.
