Henry Rollins Quotes
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I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.
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I do my best to limit the amount of compromise in my life so I have more time to do what I want. Not hanging out with many people really helps. I am not a people person and I spend a great deal of time on my own and in this environment, I get a lot done.
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I am always interested in an opportunity to learn something.
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I always found the Chicago audience to be a smart, fast-moving, violent and cheerful lot, and it's always good to be back.
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People are best on records and books because you can turn them off or put them back on the shelf.
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For myself, I can't understand a life without a job. I don't know what I would do without employment. Retirement is out of the question for me.
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Whenever any great song or album gets lost in the ether, someone is deprived of the joy of hearing it, and the great effort of those who created and recorded the work is damaged.
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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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Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.
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I would never be innovative enough to "blaze my own trail," I'm just trying to be interesting. So I don't look to anyone else as far as inspiration.
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I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.
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I don't really have any women in my life, actually those two - the women in my life are two married women who work at my office.
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Life forgets me but will not let me forget Holds me down and tells me that I'm free.
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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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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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Shirley Sherrod seems like a good and dedicated person.
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While I have no empirical evidence to back this up, I bet that the number of homosexual people per thousand has not fluctuated all that much over the centuries. I do not believe the dented wisdom my father used to extol, that homosexuality was a sure sign of a civilization in decline.
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I feel pain everyday of my life. When you see me perform, it's that pain you're seeing coming out. I put all my emotions, all my feelings, and my body on the line. People hurt me, I hurt myself - mentally, physically
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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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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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Everything you do makes my body scream with loneliness.
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I am basically working 7 days a week. When I am not eating, sleeping, or working out, I am working on one of projects which I am just damned determined to finish.
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A man came up to me the other day and said he hadn't had a bite in weeks. So you know what I did? I walked by him like he didn't even exist.
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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.