Henry Rollins Quotes
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If I had to live my life in anticipation of what others thought of me, little would get done.
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Enough Americans saw fit to give president Obama a second term. I don't think there will be many people keeping their Romney/Ryan bumper stickers on their cars.
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Death metal uses a lot of white face paint and black hair dye to make its point. I quite enjoy this genre for its intensity, extremism and underlying irony: You have to be alive to play it and listen to it.
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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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Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.
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I'm so burned out, the only person I can stand is myself. I'm the only one I would put through this. Wheels and wings, The ride is everything. I'm all I've got. I'm all I can take. Another day has destroyed a part of me. So far so good.
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The material you work with is that which you will come to resemble. That which you work against will always work against you, including yourself.
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We Americans look funny when we're in France because we don't travel, we are fairly un-cultured whereas Europeans go to Africa all the time because it's right there.
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It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.
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My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.
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I am very ambitious in a way, in that I'm not trying to be the richest guy or whatever. I just really like my work.
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I don't want to fail the audience. I don't want to let them down.
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All by yourself, unable to express the pain of your distress with your deeper inside. You alienate yourself and everybody else.
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I lay off a lot modern fiction and only rely on living writers for non-fiction work.
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Jazz music is as American as it gets, and so is the U.S. Postal Service. A Miles Davis stamp is a perfect marriage of two great American institutions.
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August brings into sharp focus and a furious boil everything I've been listening to in the late spring and summer.
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Just understand that the end began long ago We got here just in time Look All the squares in the sidewalks were already there All these strangers have more money than you do All the good riffs have been taken And everyone is so scared Murder is commonplace I don't even flinch at the gunshots outside my window I feel lonely without them
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I think more airtime should be given to Donald Trump and Orly Taitz. They should run for office together. They should open for Charlie Sheen.
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As a young person, I was on the road playing music, so I was getting new environments shoved in my face whether I wanted them or not.
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Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium.
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I read a bit of Ray Bradbury when I was a younger man. I don't read a lot of fiction anymore... like, none.
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Shirley Sherrod seems like a good and dedicated person.
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If the Constitution was a movie, the Preamble would be the trailer, the First Amendment the establishing shot, the 13th the crowd pleaser and the 14th the ultimate hero scene.
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I am the flying saucer man from another world trapped on yours until they come to rescue me. One day the saucer will land. Jimi Hendrix and John Coltrane will open the hatch and tell me to get in before someone tries to blow up the ship. I'll just ask what took them so long. Within seconds we'll be out of here.