Henry Rollins Quotes
Bono actually gets a lot of substantial work done. The guy really does put a lot of things together and, while I'm not a fan of his music, I greatly applaud his humanitarian efforts.
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It's very juicy to twirl your mustache and figure out why people do the horrible things that they do. It's not just because they are evil, but because that's how they somehow explain the world to themselves and justify themselves. It's always interesting figuring out how that happens.
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I'm looking for people who are at the cutting edge of what they do, who think out-of-the-box. Even if their work is something common today, it might have been absolutely new when they started out, so we'd like to hear of their beginnings.
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I've had my run in with trouble. Fortunately, you know, one slap on the hand is usually the last time for me... I learned my lesson.
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It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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I know politics; I know the media.
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Getting to do 'December Songs' in a cabaret-style format was so interesting because it's like a one-woman song cycle that actually tells a story. It feels like a theatrical experience more than a cabaret because I didn't talk in between. We went from one song to the next, nine songs in a row - bam - I told the story in half an hour.
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I don't think Steve Jobs had much desire to share his fortune.
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I've been married to the same man - even after the separation - longer than most people in this business. I'm sick to death of people mentioning it.
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Everything, at first, is an idea, a special creation.
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When God created you, He went to great lengths to make you exactly the way He wanted you to be. You are His ultimate work of art.
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Bro, how are you going to tap on the neck, on the choke? Go to sleep, man. Be a man.
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What I'm not about is exploiting women.
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I have grown up loving Shakespeare.
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I don't really like talking about my personal life. I like a certain amount of veil.
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And from my place, and from the time that I went through my divorce, I also had my father pass away in the middle of all that. And it kind of made everything else just kind of like the back burner, you know.
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I asked each one of them to make out with me and their reactions varied from excitable to horrified.
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Nationalism and racism, to take two examples, are the culturally nurtured outgrowths of simple tribalism.
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I'm not an agent from any government, even if some of you may not believe it. I'm not. I'm a peacemaker.
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Life ain't always beautiful, but it's a beautiful ride.
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As to modesty and decency, if we are simians we have done well, considering: but if we are something else-fallen angels-we have indeed fallen far.
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Bono actually gets a lot of substantial work done. The guy really does put a lot of things together and, while I'm not a fan of his music, I greatly applaud his humanitarian efforts.
