Henry Rollins Quotes
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I just write what I think is good and keep it at a thousand words.
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I don't have talent. I have tenacity.
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After I left D.C. to join Black Flag, I felt I was in a band.
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Entertainment's hard on the ego. I see why actors are so psycho now. Because there's so much 'we don't want you' going on in acting. Even big people get rejected but the smaller people - they really get rejected. Trust me - I know.
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Even though I am not hungry when I get up, I try to eat to get me ready for the day. Within an hour of getting up.
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I get a lot of shit because I put "I" in the lyrics all the time. The "I" is always for someone else... When I say "I," it's so that when that person is singing along with the song, it empowers them.
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I guess I am famous in a way. I would rather consider it recognizable - I think that is more logical. I don't feel famous.
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Spending time in Calcutta [India] really did a number on me. The way life and death are almost the same thing, the way poverty is dealt with, the sheer number of dead bodies you see, it's all pretty overwhelming.
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Sarah Palin embarrasses herself almost immediately upon opening her mouth to speak or upon moving her fingers to send messages to her dull flock.
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If you really want a true confrontation, you treat your opponent with respect.
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In Israel, there's a lot to learn from anyone, because to live there you've got to deal with the truth. Things happen real fast. Your day goes from cool to catastrophic in one second. Israelis know that the cafe you're in could blow up, or the shopping mall, and they rock that.
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You can still function as a living ruin.
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I don't believe in fate or destiny. I believe in various degrees of hatred, paranoia, and abandonment. However much of that gets heaped upon you doesn't matter - it's only a matter of how much you can take and what it does to you.
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After... The seas have dried out The trains have come to a shrieking holt The hounds of the abyss cease to howl The prisons have closed their doors The pigs have no one to arrest except themselves The drugs no longer have an effect When it's all over All I'll remember is you
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All of the things that the bible warns you of being: jealous, covetous, murderous, selfish, etc., that's kind of how humans are.
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I've never killed anybody... but I've definitely thought about it.
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An adult has the opportunity to enjoy the wisdom gleaned from previous decades of living and experience.
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I live my life through the prism of capitalism and physiological limits and eventualities. In all of that, there is no spirituality required. No God and karma is needed for the numbers. I live my life by the numbers. Not only am I an American, I am an Americanist.
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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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I am a veteran of the War on Christmas. I am just emerging from a battlefield strewn with dead trees and torn shreds of brightly colored wrapping paper.
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For me, jazz will always be the soundtrack of the civil rights movement.
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The best compliment I get every year is that a band will write me and say, 'We were just on tour, and we had people coming to our show saying they had never heard us before they heard us on your show.'
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I don't try to be angry to prove something. I wouldn't try to intimidate you for any reason unless you were trying to intimidate me, and then I would show you that you can't do that to me.
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The month of November makes me feel that life is passing more quickly. In an effort to slow it down, I try to fill the hours more meaningfully.