Henry Rollins Quotes
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I find it takes a lot of strength to endure myself.
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Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.
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Through the years, I have combined meditation, action, and the Iron into a single strength. I believe that when the body is strong, the mind thinks strong thoughts. Time spent away from the Iron makes my mind degenerate. I wallow in a thick depression. My body shuts down my mind.
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The music kind of takes care of itself because we've done all that as preproduction in the practice room. So by the time it gets onstage, each song has about one hundred hours of way too much mothering gone into it. So when you see us play live, that is the product of ninety days of practice, over a year of writing, listening to demos on the weekends after practice.
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Hopefully, one enhances [when growing older] his sense of humor. As he approaches 50, he'll need all the humor he can get.
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I really enjoy the lattitude I have with being a private citizen. I can get a lot done. I am good with that.
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I don't have a wife, I don't have any kids, I don't have any addictions that keep me drooling on the couch, and I'm kind of target oriented.
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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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It's hard for me to sympathize with a young person who chooses to go into the military because they know where they're going. I think we need to start depopulating the military.
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I think young people should travel and travel often to other countries like I do.
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I'm not much of an improv guy. That's a talent I don't have.
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People have become separated from their bodies. They are no longer whole. I see them move from their offices to their cars and on to their suburban homes. They stress out constantly, they lose sleep, they eat badly. And they behave badly. Their egos run wild; they become motivated by that which will eventually give them a massive stroke. They need the Iron Mind.
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There's tons of junk food for your mind on the Internet. You can sit there for three or 10 or 20 hours a day getting in online arguments with other people who also choose to waste their time.
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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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The arts in America exist in spite of America, not because of America.
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Don’t think about it. Do it. Don’t talk about it. Do it.
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I'll be here tomorrow If I can make it through today.
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It's difficult for me to be around anyone for longer than an hour. Love, death, elation, sorrow, I just don't care all that much about any of it. I am at this point, more of an observer/journalist.
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I'm pessimistic. I don't think that justice always gets the right person.
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I think that America certainly has racism, I think that any industrialized country does. But when you see how many million fans Barack Obama has who are not black, it would lead one to the conclusion that millions of Americans are in fact not burdened by the albatross of racism.
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If I were a doctor, I would prescribe that you addict yourself deeply and irrevocably to music and never, ever seek cure outside of more music. It really is the best drug available.
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I recycle and try to be nice to the earth. But flora and fauna have always interested me, and it is because of so many years of summer camp and growing up in DC with Rock Creek Park fairly near me, or Glover Park; I lived in Glover Park for a while and that park was in my backyard.
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You don't make me feel like you used to. That's why I'm leaving That's why people leave each other They come to their senses and get selfish again.
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I like the idea of someone else’s love safely sealed in a song or a book.