Henry Rollins Quotes
It is only our humanity that can deliver us from the brutality of our achievements.
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We were both in love with him. I fell out of love with him, but he didn't.
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We're passing on something of ourselves to others. I feel that's what makes our life full of meaning. It's hard to have meaning in a closet, encapsulated by nothing. I think you really have to expand yourself and your life and do what you can for other people.
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I draw and play the piano badly. But when I'm doing those things, I'm concentrating so hard there's no room for worry. I find that onstage, too.
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Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of necessity, and that's, in a way, the hardest thing about writing poetry is waiting for that music, and sometimes you never know if it's going to come.
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Most women don't play like guys do: they don't wrestle, fight, get into brawls. They don't know how to express themselves in a physical, active way.
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I was a ballet dancer growing up and that's what I was convinced I would be.
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Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.
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My father taught me that one of the most important abilities in life is to be able to take the pain and persevere, and for years this lesson had served me well.
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Among politicians and businessman, Pragmatism is the current term for 'To hell with our children.'
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To be alone with the girl to whom he is not engaged, is a man's delight; - to be alone with the man to whom she is engaged is the woman's.
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Every human being grows up inside a sheath of custom, which enfolds it as the swathing clothes enfold the infant.
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Although she feeds me bread of bitterness,And sinks into my throat her tiger’s tooth,Stealing my breath of life, I will confessI love this cultured hell that tests my youth!
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'I don’t trust you.''Of course you don’t. I know I wouldn’t. And I’m not asking you to. I’m not putting you in a situation in which your trust of me is even remotely relevant. I’m just pointing a gun to your head and giving you orders.'
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Any of the the 30 ball clubs have a chance at success, and the fans know that. It keeps everything exciting.
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I believe in my heart that 'Avatar' is going to be the revolutionary sci-fi movie for this generation, in this era.
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I actually read 'Wonder Woman,' and here's the thing about her: she's more of a physical presence than anything else. You don't get to really know her on the inside.
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When I see a room full of people pedaling away on stationary bikes, I fall into an existential spiral. It's confirmation that all we do as humans is pedal, pedal, pedal, and go nowhere. We're just specks of dust in the universe, riding 1970s stationary bicycles.
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I think Pixar's done an amazing job integrating art and science. They really get this idea that art and engineering work side by side.
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To implant fear in the minds of children is a crime. If parents try to rule the child by fear, then fear rules the child.
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To make the moral achievement implicit in science a source of strength to civilization, the scientist will have to have the cooperation also of the philosopher and the religious teacher.
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Apocalypse can mean the unveiling of the deeper self of humanity.
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It is only our humanity that can deliver us from the brutality of our achievements.
