Henry Rollins Quotes
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I just work, to the exclusion of most other things. I rarely work in a frenzied manner, just kind of - if you take the beater that whips the icing or the eggs into shape - on the upper end of medium speed, that's kind of how I am about seven days a week.
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I guess, topic to topic, you could consider me a left-leaning person.
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I think it's important to have some documentation of the past.
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I never think of what it's going to be like later. I only think in the present tense. The only time I think backwards is when I have to reissue something.
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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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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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I thought I was gonna be in the minimum-wage working world all my life.
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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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The ecstatic insanity of romantic pursuit can be so enhanced by music that entire romantic conquests, victories and ruinous, crushing defeats can be tied to songs to such a degree that it's almost unbearable to listen to them again, as they bring back the memories so vividly.
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I think it's very sad that the political landscape is so dotted with religious extremists who feel the need to infringe upon the lives of decent, free and harmless Americans who want nothing more than to be in love and to spend the rest of their lives together.
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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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The only safety is in the middle of total misunderstanding and deception.
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I don't want to go with the smooth skin and the calm brow. I hope I end up a blithering idiot cursing the sun - hallucinating, screaming, giving obscene and inane lectures on street corners and public parks.
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Being unique is never easy, and often, by the time culture catches up with you, there are only a few people who notice.
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The best revenge is to always survive yourself.
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And I love the hate mail I get, the unsigned, misspelled letters I get telling me to go back to Russia or wherever.
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I've enjoyed, to a certain extent, any country I've been in, of course like Serbia and Croatia can be very restrictive and oppressive, and frustrating, but they're still very beautiful.
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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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For me, returning to Los Angeles annihilates the memories of where I have just been with an astonishing speed.
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It's hard to keep your backbone straight in America. It's easy to turn into that which you hate, and to get smashed.
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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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I can deal with people who watch me on stage but I am not good in communicating with people any other way than through my work.
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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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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.