Henry Rollins Quotes
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I think the most "passionate" I get about actual humans are the ones I want to kill.
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Break from self rejection, try some introspection.
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I'm not exactly ambitious as much as I have a very good realization of what I am and what I am capable of.
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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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I'm always looking upwards and looking forwards and so when someone says, "Hey, would you consider a TV show?" I say, "Hell yeah, I'll consider that. I'll check that out."
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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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I just want to be able to stand up straight for a little while before I get cut down.
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I never thought about getting any tattoos removed.
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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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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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What if Americans were all judged by the actions of the Bush administration and people did not know the truth? That America is full of people who are, at present, poorly represented and poorly catered to by the media.
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We occupy the planet with a vengeance. We seek to dominate it.
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Strength is the product of struggle, you must do what others don't to achieve what others won't.
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Music, to me, is mankind's greatest possible achievement because look at all the good it does.
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Life is death in slow motion.
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Don't do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul.
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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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People have become separated from their bodies. They are no longer whole. I see them move from their offices to their cars and on to their suburban homes. They stress out constantly, they lose sleep, they eat badly. And they behave badly. Their egos run wild; they become motivated by that which will eventually give them a massive stroke. They need the Iron Mind.
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And I laugh at myself when I screw things up, which happens all the time.
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It is only our humanity that can deliver us from the brutality of our achievements.
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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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For me the music is not so much anger as much as it is of passion. And I've always associated that kind of intense emotional output with music just because the nature of the music that's attracted me as far as live.
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In the summer of '84, you just couldn't escape the Born in the USA record.
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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.