Henry Rollins Quotes
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For many years, my favorite director has been the Japanese giant Akira Kurosawa.
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Americans are poorly served by their media, you know, for the war machine and propaganda machine and the global empire and they're poorly served by what they are being told is representative government.
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You never have to listen to a famous person, it's an elective.
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I beg young people to travel.
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Every politician, every president gets votes by getting people that don't like him to like him. That's why politicians are slippery: because they talk out of both sides of their mouth.
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But I have a good life. I enjoy what I do. I am married to work.
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What I'm saying is America has a job deficit because hundreds of thousands of jobs went elsewhere. Not because [Barack] Obama raised your taxes. He, in fact, lowered them. They are lower.
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Questioning anything and everything, to me, is punk rock.
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Unsurprisingly, Nelson Mandela had and still has many detractors.
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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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America is a rough room and you don't know what might come your way, so you have to be prepared for almost anything.
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While they flail about, you will remain calm in the knowledge that you possess strength from within.
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My feelings for you shame me into silence.
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I do a lot of stuff for free anyway. Like a lot of people who you see who don't need money. Mick Jagger - he needs money? He just likes to go sing Satisfaction every night. If I wrote that song I probably would do it too.
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I remain hopeful that science, innovation and kindness will come to the fore as things become more and more tense in parts of the world. I think what you are seeing in the world right now is kind of a leveling or an attempt to level the playing field.
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My understanding of first-degree murder is that premeditation needs to be proven.
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No child asks to get born, so when they are here, they should be shielded from any possible horror.
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I have lived in public as a somewhat recognizable person since I was a teenager. Emails I answer end up posted on sites; pictures of me and someone I just met, taken by a cellphone, literally number in the thousands and are easily accessed.
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When you start thinking as far as what's a good photo, unfortunately everything starts looking like a good photo.
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If the truth is told how I want to be remembered... as someone who cared. Someone who worked really hard and someone who didn't sit around.
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My fear is naked, I'm naked and fearless, And my fear is naked...
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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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My unconditional sure thing is that I don't have one.
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Horror jolts me when I look at one of you and see a pair of beautiful eyes that make me think your mind might contain a world that could hold me as the bolts shake loose and fly from my frame.