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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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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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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Americans wanted to settle all our difficulties with Russia and then go to the movies and drink Coke.
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We are very near the final climactic events that end with the Second Coming of Christ.
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I grew up in the motel business, and it evolved into hotels.
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Any place you love is the world to you.
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We want it by ourselves and I think the greatest test of them all is to play Connecticut at our place, last game on the line and they've got a chance to share it. It's going to be crucial.
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My only extravagance in life is my sailboat. I'm bonkers about that, but other than that, I don't spend money on myself.
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Not much comes easy in this world, Sonny. If it does, it's best to be suspicious of it. It's probably not worth much.
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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.
