Henry Rollins Quotes
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Have you ever heard the expression 'one hot mess?' I think the term was custom-made for the mayor of Toronto, Rob Ford.
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I don't mind The Boss. I think he's an honest guy. I have some of his records, not all of them. I've met a couple of the E-Street guys, and they seem really cool.
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All of the things that the bible warns you of being: jealous, covetous, murderous, selfish, etc., that's kind of how humans are.
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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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I want you bad like a natural disaster. You are all I see. You are the only one I want to know.
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I think it's fantastic when the young enrage their elders. I really do believe that if it's too loud, you are indeed too old, and that if it has been standing for too long, it needs a thorough inspection.
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You can still function as a living ruin.
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I think marriage is a boring and fault-ridden contractual obligation.
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I can't imagine being sixty years of age and playing music I wrote when I was in my twenties. I would rather sail the sea of consequence to new lands. Laps around the shallow end of the pool, not for me.
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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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Your commander would never lie to you. That's the vice president's job.
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A country that has been through as much as Vietnam has to have some crazy music somewhere.
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The fact is, in the minds of many, Trayvon Martin received the appropriate punishment for a true crime: He was black, male and dared to walk outside. In life, young Trayvon was just a teenager; in death, he has been transformed into a scary, lurking, suspicious, prone-to-violence spook.
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You can't right the wrongs because you'll never understand the cause and you'll be too busy dodging the effect.
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You never have to listen to a famous person, it's an elective.
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So many Americans, for one reason or another, they watch the news and it doesn't really give them the idea of the world. Or they don't read or travel. They have no idea that America is part of the world and not the world itself.
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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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When someone asks you, 'What's punk?' my reply is, 'If you have to ask, you're never going to know.'
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For many years, my favorite director has been the Japanese giant Akira Kurosawa.
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To burn a CDR of music you like to give as a gift to someone you wish to become closer to is a cold, moist-palmed, mouth-breathing bummer.
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Miles Davis would have this lineup of all these amazing musicians and one day would just say, 'We're done.' After tons of great records and tickets sold, he said, 'Now I'm going to grow my hair out and play my horn through a wah-wah pedal.' Rather than play it safe, he went on.
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When people make my country look bad, I can't stand it.
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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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I don't want to fail the audience. I don't want to let them down.