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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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 think as I've gotten older, I've learned to look at life and take every day as it comes.
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An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.
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The conventional parabola--sentiment, the touch of the hand, the kiss, the passionate kiss, the feel of the body, the climax in the bed, then more bed, then less bed, then the boredom, the tears and the final bitterness--was to him shameful and hypocritical.
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A trade war would be a disaster for the world. It's very easy to slip into a trade war.
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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.
