Henry Rollins Quotes
I don't have many friends so the phone doesn't ring and no one's asking me to go out and go dancing with them.
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The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?' My answer to that would be, 'No.'
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I tell the government, if people have no jobs, you are in trouble. Government will be in trouble. My job is to help more people have jobs.
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Rarely in broadcasting history has so much been riding on the whimsical flick of a few thousand wrists.
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'Being green' is commendable, but I hope that people don't take too much pride and self-adoration because they shut off the water when they brushed their teeth. The truth of the matter is, conservation alone will do little to save our planet.
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I like to read in the bathtub. Ideally, that bathtub would be located on a small Greek island.
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I owe my success to my two families. If my father hadn't been willing to make sacrifices for me, I would have never won the role on 'Everybody Hates Chris'. I like working with my television family, too. We have a lot of love for each other.
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I got my Equity card right out of NYU grad school in 2000, doing 'The Great White Hope' at Arena Stage. I played Jack Jefferson. It was an amazing part to walk into, to carry that responsibility for that amount of time. The challenges and the breadth of that role were pretty amazing.
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Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances.
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I know that the last thing a book wants is to just sit around unread, serving as an element of interior decorating. So when I have people over, all they have to do is glance at my books, and I implore them to take a few home with them. If I am really ambitious, I pack books into boxes and donate them to prisons.
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It was tough trying to figure out how to put on all the women's clothes.
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People do not want politicians they know to be corrupt.
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I love Frances McDormand so much. I love her career. And I think it's fun because she gets to do comedy as well as drama.
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When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.
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I like action-adventure movies.
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But I'm a rock 'n' roll singer; that's my livelihood, my occupation.
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I feel like when I try to fit in, it comes across as not genuine, and that is not good. I'd rather just do me and have people say, 'Oh. That's interesting,' than try to fit in.
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I was definitely inspired by Madonna.
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The path of peace for us is to hand ourselves over to God and ask Him to search us, not what we think we are, or what other people think we are, or what we persuade ourselves we are or would like to be, but 'Search me out, O God, explore me as I really am in Thy sight.'
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Right now I'm not involved with anybody, but I hope by 75 I will be again.
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We should foster a culture in which people's private religious beliefs, including atheists and agnostics, are respected. And that's the kind of culture that I think allows all of us, then, to believe what we want. That's freedom of conscience. That's what our Constitution guarantees.
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Reason's last step is to acknowledge that there are infinitely many things beyond it.
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I read the book with interest, but when Jackson was a candidate in 1828 for the Presidency, I opposed him and voted for Adams. I favored a protective tariff.
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I don't have many friends so the phone doesn't ring and no one's asking me to go out and go dancing with them.
