Henry Rollins Quotes
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More and more, journalism seems to have hopped out of Truth's pocket and crept into another.
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The average is the borderline that keeps mere men in their place. Those who step over the line are heroes by the very act. Go.
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When I see the hatred exacted at Mr. Obama - you know, he lowered your taxes, killed your number one bad guy and got your guys out of Iraq - I don't understand why he seems to inflame people so much. You know, unless, unless there's a race problem.
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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 have been curious about Haiti for many years. The history of the country is as fascinating as it is turbulent.
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Citizens United didn't work. Hey, Koch brothers, Karl Rove, Shellgame Adelson: Democracy trumps money sometimes.
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I think hip-hop has definitely brought the black experience to white kids more than the civil rights movement did and more than any teacher's well-intentioned lecture on Martin Luther King did.
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For me, speaking to anyone - on a stage, in an elevator - I am looking for impact and connection. The same goes for writing.
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If you listen to the way I speak and watch the way I conduct myself - there's nothing about me that's rock n' roll. It's like, 'Hello, I'm in a rock n' roll band'. 'No, you're a narc.'
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I thought I was gonna be in the minimum-wage working world all my life.
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The only safety is in the middle of total misunderstanding and deception.
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Every summer, around late July and into August, I find myself in Europe, performing at any festival that will have me.
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The first several years of my life were used to upload incredible amounts of fear, and I just became afraid of everything. I was afraid of my parents, afraid of my classmates, afraid of the streets of Washington, D.C. I would flinch at every gesture.
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We came to the end, we found nothing. Nothing!!! And we cursed because we were hoping for so much less.
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I think it's important to have some documentation of the past.
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The more I learn about Mr. Romney, the less there is to admire.
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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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We know that in September, we will wander through the warm winds of summer's wreckage. We will welcome summer's ghost.
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I beg young people to travel. If you don't have a passport, get one. Take a summer, get a backpack and go to Delhi, go to Saigon, go to Bangkok, go to Kenya. Have your mind blown. Eat interesting food. Dig some interesting people. Have an adventure. Be careful. Come back and you're going to see your country differently, you're going to see your president differently, no matter who it is. Music, culture, food, water. Your showers will become shorter. You're going to get a sense of what globalization looks like.
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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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Life is a hurdle and you'll never clear it. Death is the end of the ride and you fear it.
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There's no retirement, there's just a few years of non-work by the fire with someone bringing you some tea and relative peace and playing with the grandchildren.
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If there was a god, he wouldn't let a guy walk right up and shoot you in the face now would he? That's right, now you get the picture. Truth burns doesn't it?
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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.