Henry Rollins Quotes
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I continually remind myself to live by a code. It's very important to me. I've got a bad temper.
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America has 2.2 million of it's citizens incarcerated. It's a statistic we should be ashamed of.
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Between the Dinosaur Jr. albums and his recent solo albums, 'Several Shades of Why' and 'Heavy Blanket,' J Mascis is emerging as one of the last men from all that '80s indie madness, still writing songs that you want to listen to over and over.
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In America, quite often, for people from a certain economic position two choices become very evident as to their adult life. One is crime, one is the military. And it is quite often that some people choose one or the other, their options not being as many as someone from a higher income.
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I wouldn't want to roll the dice on Kabul by myself, because I really think getting killed is definitely a possibility there. A very good possibility.
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Rush Limbaugh makes money getting simpleminded people to feel good about their intellectually undernourished brain spasms. He's very good at it, and I scarcely believe a fraction of what he says.
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Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.
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As a young person, I wanted everyone to agree with me.
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But I have a good life. I enjoy what I do. I am married to work.
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America is off-the-hook gay. I will not go all Ann Coulter on you and say, 'Our gays are better than their gays,' but as far as countries go, we are in-your-face gay.
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I see walking bombs on the street Hearts not beating, but ticking
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Castle Face Records, run by The Oh Sees main man, Johnny Dwyer is always worth checking in with.
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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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All my big heroes are literary, writers.
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I'm 36 and if I met a woman of my own age and married her, I'd also be marrying her former life, her past. It might be OK for some people - I don't want to judge it or anything - but it's not for me. It would destroy my creativity.
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All I have is me. Over-worked, under-appreciated, middle-aged, and shriveled up.
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August, the summer's last messenger of misery, is a hollow actor.
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I'm terrified of motorcycles. I've been on one a couple of times. I did not like it.
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I prefer to work out alone. It enables me to concentrate on the lessons that the Iron has for me.
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My favorite species to study would be Cobras and King Cobras which are two different families. They're very intelligent, and they're beautiful looking animals. Where they come from are countries and regions which I spend a lot of time in - South East Asia and India, those are places I go to fairly often, and so the cobras are my main interest. It's not a snake I can maintain, but when I see them in zoos and what not, I find them interesting.
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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 have found the Iron to be my greatest friend. It never freaks out on me, never runs. Friends may come and go. But two hundred pounds is always two hundred pounds
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The blues is losing someone you love and not having enough money to immerse yourself in drink.
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I have come to regard November as the older, harder man's October. I appreciate the early darkness and cooler temperatures. It puts my mind in a different place than October. It is a month for a quieter, slightly more subdued celebration of summer's death as winter tightens its grip.