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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What happened to me is I gained a little weight so I could be more accessible to people. They're not like, 'Oh my God, he's, like, a male model comedian; yuck, ugh.' It's like, 'Oh, he's a little squishy; He's like me. He's accessible.' And girls are like, 'Look how cuddly he is. I just want to cuddle up in his neck fat and go to sleep.'
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The rules are all in a sixty-four-page pamphlet by Aristotle called 'Poetics.' It was written almost three thousand years ago, but I promise you, if something is wrong with what you're writing, you've probably broken one of Aristotle's rules.
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Yet the wonder of it all is that, while engaged in a seemingly endless struggle, the Israelis have managed to turn a desert into a garden.
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Artists are very young, and say, Um, ok, to these industry dudes.
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Mima was like the tree. In this desert where I’d grown up, Mima had shaded me from the sun. She was a tree. How would I live without that tree?
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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.
