Henry Rollins Quotes
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There is not one single police officer in America that I am not afraid of and not one that I would trust to tell the truth or obey the laws they are sworn to uphold. I do not believe they protect me in any way.
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I get tired of talking when I want to be silent.
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I think young people should travel and travel often to other countries like I do.
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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 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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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 have been restless for as long as I can remember.
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I'm not much of an improv guy. That's a talent I don't have.
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'Duck Dynasty' is a ridiculous show, and long may it wave. America and democracy will endure. They've seen a lot worse.
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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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In the summer of '84, you just couldn't escape the Born in the USA record.
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There's nothing new about the government protecting corporations and calling it the freeing of the world or bringing democracy to bereft nations.
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Almost all human who can form a sentence will eventually let you in on the fact that their lives are very difficult and sometimes very hard to manage.
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It's hard to get people at a record company to talk about music. They don't seem to want to talk about music, it's all marketing, and that's part of a record, you gotta get it out there, people have gotta hear it, but you could do it in a way that's not repulsive.
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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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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 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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We occupy the planet with a vengeance. We seek to dominate it.
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My desires are foolish. The things I want are better kept to myself. The hand of silence is steady. The hard blade of silence is clean like night. The code is absolute. Silence is eternal and patient. Silence never makes a fool of itself like I have so many times.
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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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Some people see Black Friday as a much-needed break for their wallet. I see it as retail outlets showing the customers the full weight of their contempt. The frenzy to buy cheap crap from China, the human downgrade of people fighting with each other over items they can probably live without, to me, is an insult.
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I'm pessimistic. I don't think that justice always gets the right person.
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I don't want to pass through life like a smooth plane ride.
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We're just very belligerent, and I'm not trying to put Americans down, by and large I think we're nice people, but we operate with the information we're given and we are limited by the ignorance that is kind of injected into the media and into the TV shows.