Henry Rollins Quotes
I'm not a young man, and I can find intensity in a lot of different ways, sometimes without even raising my voice. When I was younger, it was all about how I need three extra sets of lungs to get enough wind to get out the thing at the screaming level I need to, because that's the way it needs to be. Now, I see that there's a whole lot of other colors on the palette.
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I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.
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I learned that despite having years and years of experience in math and computer science and so on, I didn't really know how to code until I formed a company.
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But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
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The Stonewall riots were a key moment for gay people. Throughout modern history, gays had thought of themselves as something like a mental illness or maybe a sin or a crime. Gay liberation allowed us to make the leap to being a 'minority group,' which made life much easier.
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Somehow I got the feeling at an early age that I had to do something important with my life.
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You could argue that 'Sweeney Todd' was romantic, if you looked closely at it, but it didn't impart that to its audiences. But it's large, and it's melodramatic, and it's a style I like to work in periodically.
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I love all the attention, people noticing me. 'There's the gymnast. There she is!'
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It seems to me that more and more we've come to expect less and less from each other, and I think that should change.
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Usually, when inspiration strikes late, the light of day reveals that I haven't gotten an idea for a book so much as a psychiatric case study.
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I fell in love with Rwanda the moment I saw those verdant, rolling hills rise up beneath the wings of the plane as we descended toward Kigali airport.
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The Breton peasant is said to have a hard head. He is obstinate and resists outside pressure to alter his creed or his customs.
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I have a couture body.
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We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.
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My father died the year I was elected to Congress: 1987.
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Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.
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I charged into something which might have been a tree, but was not-being, in point of fact, Jeeves.
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I spent seven years in France. Then, I went to Asia for five years. I came to London in 1984 and then America in 1985. In 1991, I opened my first restaurant in New York City.
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There are countless horrible things happening all over the world and horrible people prospering, but we must never allow them to disturb our equanimity or deflect us from our sacred duty to sabotage and annoy them whenever possible.
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The ultimate end...is not knowledge, but action. To be half right on time may be more important than to obtain the whole truth too late.
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In reality, I've always been an actor - since I was a kid. I did theater growing up in New York. I was always in the plays in school. I was either going to be an actor or an athlete or a soldier. Those were kind of the three paths that I always kind of embarked on.
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I'd like to do a Christmas album. I've never done a Christmas album.
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The fact that I like to make characters doesn't mean that I like to watch my characters being made, my performance.
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I'm not a young man, and I can find intensity in a lot of different ways, sometimes without even raising my voice. When I was younger, it was all about how I need three extra sets of lungs to get enough wind to get out the thing at the screaming level I need to, because that's the way it needs to be. Now, I see that there's a whole lot of other colors on the palette.
