Henry Rollins Quotes
To justify being listened to, I try to be as well informed as I can. Hence, the travel. Reading is good too. Reading gets you part way there, and I do read pretty voraciously for a guy who's trying to write so much.
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I've been in this business for 40 years - you do a show, and you don't know what's going to come of it.
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Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows 'I am!' No one can deny his own being.
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I feel comfortable whenever I step on the floor.
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Someone told me, 'When you go see Pearl Jam, it's going to be a spiritual experience,' and it was. It was my first time seeing them live, and I've been a lifelong fan. Eddie Vedder's voice is a million times better live, and I couldn't believe the passion he put into every single song.
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I really think more fledgling novelists - and many current and even established novelists - should get out into the real world and cover local politics, sports, culture, and crime and write it up on deadline.
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I really love acting, but I also really want to be a historian, so it's really confusing.
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Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
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Librarians have always stood up for writers and readers in every kind of community across this country.
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Even city people have ancestors who had their hands in the dirt.
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I think protecting your family and giving to them is so important. It's the most important achievement.
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Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?
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While I was serving in the Florida Senate, American soldiers were being killed in Iraq, a war we should have never started, and often by Iranian proxies and their improvised explosive devices.
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I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.
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If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.
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The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California.
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When you've got children, it's easy to do that thing of keeping a tally of who woke up earliest and whose turn it is to put them to bed. But I think the important thing is to appreciate and love each other and to show that appreciation.
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I had great mentors in my parents who always sought to understand the world around them. And they would push me to really think things through.
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I'm not very experienced with boys or the whole dating thingy.
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I think we need the feminine qualities of leadership, which include attention to aesthetics and the environment, nurturing, affection, intuition and the qualities that make people feel safe and cared for.
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I think better of our behaviour as individuals than I do when we see ourselves as members of a group. It's when people start forming groups that we have to watch our backs.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.
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I have a theory that you can make any sentence seem profound by writing the name of a dead philosopher at the end of it.
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To justify being listened to, I try to be as well informed as I can. Hence, the travel. Reading is good too. Reading gets you part way there, and I do read pretty voraciously for a guy who's trying to write so much.
