Henry Rollins Quotes
It's hard to keep your backbone straight in America. It's easy to turn into that which you hate, and to get smashed.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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The Heat gave me an opportunity when nobody else wanted to.
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.
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When I went to Juventus, I was young, but in training, I had legends like Fabio Cannavaro and Lilian Thuram marking me. I had to work hard to get my respect.
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I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.
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Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.
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My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
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Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue.
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Sexuality is one of the biggest parts of who we are.
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I consider myself a student of many religions. The more I learn, the more questions I have. For me, the spiritual quest will be a life-long work in progress.
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You remember Donnie Brasco? It's the most notorious undercover movie ever; it's so street and so real. If you ever imagined yourself doing cop work, you imagined yourself getting pushed to that limit - seeing the furthest you can push yourself while still upholding the law.
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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I came into this league by myself, and I'll leave by myself.
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When I die there may be a paragraph or two in the newspapers. My name will linger in the British Museum Reading Room catalogue for a space at the head of a long list of books for which no one will ever ask.
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I love 'First Wives Club' and 'Death Becomes Her' and movies about women like that.
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If you want to see me cry, just come to a photo shoot.
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Lee Ann Womack is from near where I grew up in East Texas, so I've always looked up to her. I sang a lot of Dolly Parton as a kid and a lot of traditional western swing, like Patsy Cline and Roy Rogers.
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Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa-Lobos?
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There was a long time in my life where I made music that I thought my friends would like, or that I thought would get me a record deal, or what I thought I was supposed to make because that's what I was seeing in mainstream. I didn't know myself; I didn't find myself musically or, in real life.
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All is change; all yields its place and goes.
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In order to lead a country or a company, you've got to get everybody on the same page and you've got to be able to have a vision of where you're going. America can't have a vision of health care for everybody, green economy, regulations - can't have a bunch of piece-meal activities. It's got to have a vision.
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I think in 'Escape Fire,' we really look at the military as a microcosm for the rest of America.
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America is the most giving nation on Earth. One of the best ways to feel better is by doing something for somebody else.
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It's hard to keep your backbone straight in America. It's easy to turn into that which you hate, and to get smashed.
