Henry Rollins Quotes
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Everyone should have the right to go off and do their music or do their books. The people who are in the position to censor they're really not down to reality where that certain artists are coming from.
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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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The talking shows allow me to come out of my cave and that's why those shows go on for so long. I hate walking off stage. Sometimes I walk off and I miss them as I'm walking off the stage. I wonder if they'll let me go another hour. That's why I do it: to communicate, to get points across.
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One person's disaster is another person's talking point.
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I'm a liar. I'll rip your mind up. I'll burn your soul, I'll turn you in to me.
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Please don't think that I am one of those squishy types who can't handle reality. I have plenty of real-world things to deal with all the time. I have deadlines, meetings, I answer the phone, I get turned down, I wait in lines and am forced to pass for normal all the time.
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To me, the real 'state of the union' is found in how Americans react to current events.
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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.
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My fear is naked, I'm naked and fearless, And my fear is naked...
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If people are being upstanding citizens of the Republic, then you have to widen the net to incarcerate them. This explains why America's prisons are full of nonviolent offenders - a perfect example of American exceptionalism.
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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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Everything you do makes my body scream with loneliness.
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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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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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I think marriage is a boring and fault-ridden contractual obligation.
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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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The public library system of the United States is worth preserving.
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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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Life is weird, great and dangerous.
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I'm trying to be confrontational and direct. If I lack directness then I only have myself to blame because I lack the skills to make my point clear.
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I was raised in Washington, DC, very violent place. I grew up with violence. My introduction to music was violent. The years I've spent on tours, some of that was extremely violent.
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You can pass all the gun legislation you want. None of it will make me feel any more or less safe than I do right at this moment.
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The opportunity to write for the 'L.A. Weekly' has been one of the better breaks that has come my way in a long time.
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I have had a number of less-than-enviable moments in my life when dealing with other people. I won't attempt to blunt that by saying I am not the only one.