Henry Rollins Quotes
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I want to meet a woman that will make me stop and listen to what she has to say. I want a woman who will make my jaw drop in awe. A woman that has little time for me. One who does not throw herself at me. One who respects herself who has a sense of herself. Where is she
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I think I am the most impressed with writing styles that defy category, like Kharms or Selby, Breton or Jarry, where you become as interested in the writer as much as the writing itself. It's all these things that make reading so appealing to me.
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My unconditional sure thing is that I don't have one.
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Humans are pretty amazing at living pretty much anywhere and so that makes me optimistic that perhaps humanity will be able to survive itself, because the reality is that we are going to have problems with water in this century.
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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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Don't do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul.
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I definitely learned a lesson this time. I know that I can be broken. I am not as tough as I thought. I see it now. At this point, it's the only thing good that came out of all of this. I know myself better now and know what I have to do.
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I just want to be able to stand up straight for a little while before I get cut down.
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I lack the skill to hold a story line for the length required for a novel or even a short story. I have never had an idea that could withstand a hundred thousand words, or even ten thousand words of rubber meeting the road.
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I'm not a very good writer. I'm working at it.
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Most poets are elitist dregs more concerned with proving their skill with a dictionary than communicating ideas with impact.
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When you're very young, images that you upload into your very young mind tend to stay with you.
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As far as poetry, I don't know if I've ever written any. I've read a lot. I just write and it comes out in different forms and shapes. I don't know if I'm any good at it I just really go for it and I'm very prolific book wise only because I own the company. No one tells me 'no' around here.
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The Internet, the camera cellphone and the like have not only sped up the world's information uptake, but they have cheapened that which they capture.
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When you are young, there is so much ahead of you, it's like the Saharan desert. You can't even see across it.
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I'm not much of an improv guy. That's a talent I don't have.
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Questioning anything and everything, to me, is punk rock.
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Don't go to summer camp. Bury your parents in the backyard and have the place to yourself.
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Like a lot of inwardly drawn young people, I spent a lot of time in libraries. At my high school, I often spent my lunch breaks there.
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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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Never once have I thought that Social Security would be something that would ever be available to me.
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Break from self rejection, try some introspection.
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As far as what people think of me, maybe my stuff should just be put online for free downloads when I'm gone.
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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.