Henry Rollins Quotes
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I'm the descendant of enslaved black people in this country. You could've been born in 1820 if you were black and looked back to your ancestors and saw nothing but slaves all the way back to 1619. Look forward another 50 or 60 years and saw nothing but slaves.
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I started off small and then this was just the great opportunity.
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I like myself a lot more than I used to. I had a very difficult time in my twenties especially. It was hard for me to look in the mirror and find something that I liked about myself.
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Sometimes you don't realize how far you've gotten until you look around at the people who are still trailing far behind you.
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What's so great about the truth? Try lying for a change, it's the currency of the world.
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The unphilosophical majority among men are the ones most helplessly dependent on their era's dominant ideas.
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Actors spend a great deal of their time making films. And that doesn't mean that they're not educated. But we haven't gone to law school and we're not experts on policy. We're just people with a platform and an opinion. But that should never be enough, in my opinion, to be political.
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I used to think that eighty was a very old age. Now I am ninety. I do not think this any more. As long as you are able to admire and to love, you are young.
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Generally speaking in America, a lot of environmentally problematic facilities tend to be located in places where poor folks live because wealthier folks have the ability to say, "not in my backyard."
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I cannot choose one hundred best books because I have only written five.
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Most real failures are due to limitations which men set up in their own minds.
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If you get a chance to go outside of the country, you start examining where you're from and some of the thought processes. Like when I finally got away from the east coast for a while, and I came back there was just this underlying anger that I never noticed before, because I was born there and just dropped right into it.
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What is necessary is to teach each class and profession the importance of the others. All together form one mighty body; labourer, peasant, and professional man.
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Good and decent people must be protected and persuaded by gentle means, but the rabble must be led by terror.
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I always say that when I'm playing well, no one can beat me. I'm not just saying that to sound full of myself or anything, but it's true.
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I am well protected Too locked up Inside myself To get free
