Henry Rollins Quotes
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I got my heart broken. My spirit got shattered and mutilated. I will not be coming back from this. I don’t want to.
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For me, jazz will always be the soundtrack of the civil rights movement.
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The only thing about sanctions is that, like a lot of drone strikes, there are countless unintended victims. Cutting off aid to Uganda only increases the pain there.
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He looked at her Something Turned cancerous He was in love.
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Help me to withstand your beauty as it stands out of reach. Give me the capacity to forget ever having felt your touch.
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That Newt Gingrich or any mainstream Republican has the nerve to look down from what they perceive as their moral mountaintop at anyone is laughable.
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I beg young people to travel. If you don't have a passport, get one.........the re are lessons that you can't get out of a book that are waiting for you at the other end of that flight. A lot of people - Americans and Europeans - come back and go, "ohhhhh." And the lightbulb goes on.
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I live my life by the numbers. Not only am I an American, I am an Americanist.
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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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Politics is a thing that I follow because it determines what is going on in my country, but I vote and deal with politicians with a great degree of jaundiced eye.
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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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Guns are part of the American identity.
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What does New York sound like? For me, the Charlie Parker at the Royal Roost recordings on the Savoy label are the total embodiment of the New York music experience.
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There're some places that are more difficult or dangerous to navigate and I wouldn't look forward to going back. Like I'd much rather go back to Afghanistan - which fascinates me - quicker than I'd go back to spend a week walking around Nairobi, Kenya, which is a great and easy way to get yourself killed.
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I'm not harmful, just introspective. You can probably think I'm weird, but it's not harmful weird.
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I tend to gravitate to the darkest or most obscure part of any venue in an effort to have my own space to experience the music on my own, free from unwanted conversations and other distractions.
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It wasn't until my late twenties that I learned that by working out I had given myself a great gift. I learned that nothing good comes without work and a certain amount of pain. When I finish a set that leaves me shaking, I know more about myself. When something gets bad, I know it can't be as bad as that workout.
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Humans will take a rain forest and lose it and cover it with concrete. They will take the woods and turn it into a parking garage and I am not saying that's bad. I am just saying that's what we do. We occupy the planet with a vengeance. We seek to dominate it.
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Barack Obama's administration responded to the Haitian crisis within 24 hours. Here comes the soldiers, here comes the food, go go go... Rush Limbaugh told his multi-millions of listeners that Obama only did that to gain favour with black people in America. This is the kind of idiocy that I have to deal with in my country.
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I'm not into fame. I'm not into making money, outside of financing my books. I'm not into status. My thing is basically about time - not wasting it.
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I think it is incumbent on anyone who can to lift human dignity to the highest possible levels, maintaining one's own and helping to raise that of others.
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With age, life becomes complex and difficult, often fraught with risk on several levels, from the practical to the fiscal.
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There is no place in the world like Australia. Not even its beautiful neighbor New Zealand.
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I'm not trying to say I'm a big tough guy... I'm a typical American-waist deep in this violent culture.