Henry Rollins Quotes
I don't really have any women in my life, actually those two - the women in my life are two married women who work at my office.
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One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.
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I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
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I'm definitely a guitar player, but it's the last thing I listen to in a song, after the singer and the drums.
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We're here for a little, little bit of time, and I just wanna make the most out of it.
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We ignore our feelings a lot, I realize. Many of us have to... until they really bite us in the butt.
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He's really sort of the devil. He's completely emotionally detached. He has no empathy. You find that in psychopaths. It's about power with Voldemort. It's an aphrodisiac for him. Power makes him feel alive.
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I need to be very isolated to write, and unfortunately isolation is often quite difficult to find. My ideal writing environment would be a country house hotel in the middle of nowhere, with full room service.
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You're never going to hear me say, 'Well, I've been critical of Obama five times, so now I need to be critical of McCain five times.' That is a false equivalence, and that's what I think is wrong with journalism.
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I don't have time to be depressed.
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I love meeting fans. They're always fun, they always have good things to say, smart questions to ask, and plenty of ideas for me to explore in the future.
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The relationship between France and its 'foreign' players - blacks and North African Arabs - has always been troubled, particularly with Algerians.
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You're always going to be more judgmental about your own performance than anyone else.
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When they talk to me, people say, 'I didn't expect you to be how you are.'
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If you are a genius, you'll make your own rules, but if not - and the odds are against it - go to your desk no matter what your mood, face the icy challenge of the paper - write.
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We must get rid of fossil fuels by developing injection systems for automobiles, which can run on bio-fuel.
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I haven't read a lot of Westerns. But I wrote a Western. The influences were all cinematic.
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Boxing is what pays my bills.
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There are some who praise a man free from disease; to me no man who is poor seems free from disease but to be constantly sick.
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My father was a railroad man his entire life; 43 years for Southern Railroad.
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You do not want to get married at 22! Especially if you're famous, because girls are going to be throwing themselves at you.
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The personal qualities necessary for attaining office are practically the opposite of those demanded by the office itself. The trouble with the damn system is that it selects for the skills needed to get elected, and nothing else. A test that you can only pass by cheating can't possibly select honest people.
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I don't really have any women in my life, actually those two - the women in my life are two married women who work at my office.
