Henry Rollins Quotes
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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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If you have an idea of what you want to do in your future, you must go at it with almost monastic obsession. [...] You have to go at it single-mindedly and let nothing get in your way.
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Don’t think about it. Do it. Don’t talk about it. Do it.
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I take the work seriously, just not myself in it.
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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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I think more airtime should be given to Donald Trump and Orly Taitz. They should run for office together. They should open for Charlie Sheen.
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I'm not much of an improv guy. That's a talent I don't have.
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I think Perry Ferrell put independent music on a very good path with Lollapalooza.
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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.
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Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.
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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'm pessimistic. I don't think that justice always gets the right person.
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From those who agonize that they may no longer be able to write off their private jet to someone who doesn't feel like making the three mile hike to the well to get water and carry it back, everyone struggles.
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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 warn people, your 40s will require massive amounts of humor and humility.
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If I were a doctor, I would prescribe that you addict yourself deeply and irrevocably to music and never, ever seek cure outside of more music. It really is the best drug available.
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I am neither pro- nor anti-gun. I am gun-conscious.
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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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Try driving the streets of Los Angeles without seeing a billboard depicting a film with a lead actor holding a gun. It's almost as if guns are harmless props used to bring out the cheekbones and jawline of the screen star.
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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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I do a lot of walking around in game parks, rain forests, places like that, but it's not like I'm camping in them as much as my day walks. I've done that all over the world, not like with a backpack on my back living out in the woods for several days. When I travel abroad, it's more the city that captures my interest.
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Do it or don't. It's amazing how many things in life are that easy.
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I recycle and try to be nice to the earth. But flora and fauna have always interested me, and it is because of so many years of summer camp and growing up in DC with Rock Creek Park fairly near me, or Glover Park; I lived in Glover Park for a while and that park was in my backyard.