Henry Rollins Quotes
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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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I like the idea of someone else’s love safely sealed in a song or a book.
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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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I have no desire to write anything for screen. That's a great talent.
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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 think Americans really need to start thinking globally. As resources become more dear, we will be pulled closer to the rest of the world anyway.
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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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I just travel the world with my backpack and my cameras and a bunch of Clif bars.
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Anyone who wants to help me doesn't. Anyone who wants to kill me might. Anyone who wants to love me better not.
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It's hard to judge literary merit.
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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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In my world there would be as many public libraries as there are Starbucks.
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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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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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People will remember that the Tea Party was co-opted and funded by billion-dollar corporations, and that it was supported by Fox News and other outlets with the same vigor with which they attempt to denigrate the Occupy protesters.
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Don’t think about it. Do it. Don’t talk about it. Do it.
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The material you work with is that which you will come to resemble. That which you work against will always work against you, including yourself.
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Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn't worth the time and effort.
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I'm not a very good writer. I'm working at 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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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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I don't want to pass through life like a smooth plane ride.
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I come from a town of great musicians: Washington, D.C. It's no joke, that history.