Henry Rollins Quotes
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For me the music is not so much anger as much as it is of passion. And I've always associated that kind of intense emotional output with music just because the nature of the music that's attracted me as far as live.
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The public library system of the United States is worth preserving.
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I think there is something very interesting about people who live day to day in an environment where they could get taken out by a wild animal. There has to be some kind respect that is derived from that relationship.
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In my bright, utopian future world, they will hand out college educations like cups of water at the end of the L.A. Marathon.
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If I hear, 'Be afraid of Tehran,' I'm like, 'I'd better go to Tehran.'
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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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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 just travel the world with my backpack and my cameras and a bunch of Clif bars.
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I have no desire to write anything for screen. That's a great talent.
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Florida is a crazy place, and I have played some of the wildest shows of my life here.
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Human beings should not be reduced to a state to where they almost get into a fight over a small bar of soap.
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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 like the idea of someone else’s love safely sealed in a song or a book.
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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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I don't want to pass through life like a smooth plane ride.
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I'm pessimistic. I don't think that justice always gets the right person.
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My love runs deeper than the wounds.
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I'd rather work on my radio show, which no one hears but I put about eight hours of programming and writing into it for those 30 people who do tune in.
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It's hard to judge literary merit.
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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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Marriage equality is a term so ridiculous on its face that when you hear it mentioned, you would think you were in Riyadh. Years from now, perhaps we can lose the equality part, the same-sex part and call it what it is - marriage.
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Sometimes it seems the harder you try to hold onto something or someone the more it wants to get away. You feel like some kind of criminal for having felt, for having wanted. For having wanted to be wanted. It confuses you because you think that your feelings were wrong and it makes you feel so small because it’s so hard to keep it inside when you let it out and it doesn’t come back. You’re left so alone that you can’t explain.
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The government is a functionary of the corporations - and there's nothing new about that. You can find people in the 1930s talking about the army basically working for Wall Street in all of these countries [it invades].
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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.