Henry Rollins Quotes
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No such thing as spare time, no such thing as free time, no such thing as down time. All you got is life time. Go.
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Americans should demand real news, more transparency and more truth.
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I don't believe it mattered to Timothy McVeigh who was president or who his congressional representative was when he blew up the Murrah Building in 1995.
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As you do with any band you're in, you get to know everyone too well all too soon. When you're crammed into a small space, proximity leads to familiarity.
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For many, an album is no longer a considerable feat of an artist but just sounds to be half-listened to while one is halfheartedly engaged in something else.
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I used to sit on the roof of the apartment where Jim Morrison used to write his early lyrics
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One of the most insane environments I have ever spent time in is a gun range. There we are, all in a line, armed to the teeth, firing away.
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If an American company has a drop of patriotic blood coursing through its system, then surely it would set up in America and employ Americans, right?
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Nietzsche, who you don't spend too much time with after the age of seventeen, did have that one great line about "he who stares into the abyss must know that the abyss also stares into him" and I never really understood that until my friend got killed and you really get your head around the idea of what horror means. It's a truly awful thing, to really, kind of have that understanding of things and when you really peer into that.
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I travel because I want to know. Books and documentaries will only get you so far. If you want to know, you will have to go.
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I guess, topic to topic, you could consider me a left-leaning person.
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Most of the people who call me a sellout were 7 when I was down face-first in the punk trenches.
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My father did not rock. He just earned and hated. Don't end up like this man.
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For me, returning to Los Angeles annihilates the memories of where I have just been with an astonishing speed.
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I have to keep moving I don't want to think I'm going to work all day today I don't want to stop Don't want to let my brain catch up my thoughts How will I be able to tell them that I'm a shadow A grey patch of cold rotting life
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In blues music, there's a lot of borrowing, so it's often difficult to identify the originator of a song.
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I know I was a generic dysfunctional child, but I think a lot of people are.
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The more I learn about Mr. Romney, the less there is to admire.
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The best revenge is to always survive yourself.
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I come from a minimum wage working world, as we all did for at least some part of our lives, and that is never out of my rearview. I've never forgotten how much your feet hurt after you've stood on them for like 12 hours. And how the drudgery of a job you hate craps on your entire life; how you treat other people, how you treat yourself, and it really was getting to me.
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I'd love to talk to Janeane Garafalo or Randi Rhodes or Stephanie Miller from Air America. I'm an Air American junkie; I listen to them every day.
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I love capitalism. It rewards me for being brave - it awards me for being innovative and thinking out of the box.
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Joe Strummer, Johnny Rotten, and Ian MacKaye were all people who really made me see things differently.
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I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention.