Henry Rollins Quotes
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I am neither pro- nor anti-gun. I am gun-conscious.
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I don't want to pass through life like a smooth plane ride.
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I have no pride about anything I have done. It's just not the way I think about things. I do the work, always, as hard as I can, to the point of pain, injury, exhaustion, if that is what it takes. Once I am done, I move on.
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When you put yourself in environments that continually test you, that's where all the good stories come from. That's where the jokes come from is from the shitty parts.
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Spring and fall, those are very inspiring times of the year for me.
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Mr. Christ, I read you as an infinitely patient entity who, as they say, often works in mysterious ways, a rebel unafraid to take the tougher, less traveled paths. Seems to me you're playing the long game. Is that why more states are coming out in favor of marriage equality? Is that why the Affordable Care Act is now with us?
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Smart people make good choices. They dig science and say 'no' to the invasion of sovereign nations for the pleasure of corporations.
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I really like older writers, perhaps because they take me out of my element. I don't have a great deal of interest in reading a fictionalized present as it's pretty insane as it is.
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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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I live my life through the prism of capitalism and physiological limits and eventualities.
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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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Motivation has always been a fascinating factor when considering a touring artist, especially when the years stack up. What keeps one out there year after year?
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All of the jobs have gone away to satisfy the stockholders, so that's where the economy has gone. These major multinational corporations do not see their futures in America.
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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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I think self-reliance and self-responsibility and self-accountability will help you as a parent, a teacher, as a citizen as a friend.
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In the summer of '84, you just couldn't escape the Born in the USA record.
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My love is a thousand French poets puking black blood on your Cure CD collection.
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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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Michele Bachmann is always a great person to go to for an opinion about anything. She has a very active and interesting mind.
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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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I like the idea of someone else’s love safely sealed in a song or a book.
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Imagine someone so infatuated by a band that they have every different pressing of every album the band made. Most of the time, the only difference in the album is the matrix number or a different 'made in' notation on the back cover or label. This is enough to make some people extremely excited. Actually, much more than excited.
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I like how I write better than how I speak.
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Most Americans are very cool people.