Henry Rollins Quotes
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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.
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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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I've never killed anybody... but I've definitely thought about it.
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Will punk rock ever die? Pal, if you have to ask it's dead to you.
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I was happy to find out that when on tour, Dolly Parton doesn't use hotels but stays on her bus every night, to the point of having her buses shipped from Austria to Australia so she can tour the way she sees fit. I used one of her buses once - an honor.
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Nelson Mandela will always be the face of South Africa. The traveler passing through the country will see Mandela's face almost everywhere he looks. Truly, the man is omnipresent.
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We Americans are hard on almost everything. We are hard on our vehicles, our marriages and our heroes. Mostly, however, we are hard on ourselves.
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If some band sucks, you're going to have to find out about it for yourself, because I don't have the interest in issuing warnings.
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He looked at her Something Turned cancerous He was in love.
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I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention.
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I plan to be a part of Haiti's reconstruction and future.
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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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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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Texas is a hotbed of insanely good bands and musicians.
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To anger female voters in America is to tread on the tiger's tail. Women turn out in huge numbers, and they are well aware of how their bodies work and what they need.
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I want to learn more about the world. It makes me want to get up and go.
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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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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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I wonder how Colin Powell sleeps at night. I would like to have a word with him because he lied. He lied. He lied to me. He lied to my face through the camera at the U.N.
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For me, Memphis has always been a city that holds a great deal of meaning and also leads me to a lot of thinking. Besides Sun Studio, which helped put rock n' roll on the map all over the world, the legendary Stax Studio also called Memphis home.
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All I have is me. Over-worked, under-appreciated, middle-aged, and shriveled up.
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I mean I appreciate fan mail and that the people like what I am doing but I can't answer it. If I would answer 25 letters a day I would be just a guy answering mail and not an artist anymore.
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You can't get your head around something if you're yelling.
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What makes me uncomfortable about [Barack] Obama is what makes me uncomfortable about any young politician who has not yet been bloodied inside the Beltway.