Henry Rollins Quotes
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Each year, every city in the world that can should have a multiday festival. More people meeting each other, digging new types of music, new foods, new ideas. You want to stop having so many wars? This could be a step in the right direction.
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If it were a choice between me getting killed or one of my friend's kids, I would happily take the shot.
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Always knowing you're going to die And until then knowing you've got to live.
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I enjoy helping. I like doing benefits and things like that, but don't feel the need to be thanked or even meet the people I am doing the benefit for.
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After having read a lot of fiction, literature, whatever you want to call it, from Wolfe to Houellebecq, I think you have to have an understanding and insight of the human condition that is informed and motivated by a desire to immerse yourself in the human world and bring these stories to bear.
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I got three letters today telling me that I'm god. Why can't I pay the rent?
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We are occupants. No one has any lasting purchase on life or on the planet.
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All good writers inspire me as I have never thought I was any good. As far as a writer who made me think I could do it, it was Henry Miller. Not because I thought he was so simple that I reckoned I could pull it off as well, but it was his freedom and guts that really moved me to want to write all the time.
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I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things.
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A man with an excruciatingly painful condition wrote me and told me that his doctor said that the only cure for what he has is death, and he might want to consider suicide. What do you say to him? I doubt the, "Hey let's go get some coffee and talk" thing is going to be at all helpful.
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I don't really think about the audience much. I think of myself. Let me dig myself out of that one.
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I don't get a lot of choices in movies. It's not like I'm Brad Pitt and I can walk in and go here's the film I want to do and everyone runs around... I don't have that. I stand in line and do auditions. I'm there with 80 other guys trying to be that guy. Every once in awhile I luck out.
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I'm not trying to amass people in the streets. I just want them to be more aware.
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This is my own little rock theory: In my mind, Nirvana slayed the hair bands. They shot the top off the poodles.
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Since the last tour I have done a lot of extensive travel to Iraq, Kuwait, Siberia, South Korea and other places and picked up some hopefully interesting stories. We are living in interesting times and as bad as things are, I draw considerable inspiration from some of the things I'm seeing and people I'm meeting. I'm looking forward to getting out on the road and talking about it all.
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I do think that Americans are poorly served by their media, at times extremely poorly served by their elected officials who are non responsive to majority feelings and cut off to a certain degree from the affairs of the world.
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If you paid Americans a living wage, they would be able to pay for products made by Americans in America.
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I feel close to people like Jimi Hendrix because I connect with his music. Not the man but what he did.
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I wonder what it's like to be from a state that is spread across a few islands way out in the Pacific Ocean, only added to the United States in 1959. Not only that but to be the birthplace of America's first black president? Pretty cool, I bet.
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I am primarily a loner. I don't go to clubs. I don't hang out with people. I don't know many people. It's just the way it ended up. It's not a sob story; it's fine for me.
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America was cool with Saddam Hussein when he was killing Iranians.
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Imagine a 15-year-old kid saying, 'I have two moms - it's cool.' I don't fear that at all.
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I am too far gone to be rehabilitated.
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The visceral nature of hard rock music, the fact that you can have this sledge hammering sound - and that you can hook a lyric up and a feeling up to something and make the lyric jump into this machine that crushes. That has always been really attractive to me, that kind of power.