Henry Rollins Quotes
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I warn people, your 40s will require massive amounts of humor and humility.
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We occupy the planet with a vengeance. We seek to dominate it.
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I write what I can. I think being able to write like Michael Connelly and have a character that goes from novel to novel, or to dramatize history like Vidal or Ellroy, or have an explosively inventive mind like Bulgakov, would be an incredible thing. I don't have that. I only have what I have.
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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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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 so painful to be next to someone you feel strongly about and know you can't say the things you want to.
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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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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 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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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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Break from self rejection, try some introspection.
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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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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'm usually busy - if you call me at the house, I get about four phone calls there a year - I'm usually running around the house with a pen in my mouth holding onto something, folding it, or doing something to it, and it's always a bad time.
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I believe in North, South, East, West, The seasons, life and death, geography. That which is provable, absolute and most of all, functional. I believe in things that can kill me.
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There's no rule that you have to like Henry Rollins the musician or the actor.
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Don't go to summer camp. Bury your parents in the backyard and have the place to yourself.
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Don't do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul.
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I don't need to have my convictions confirmed by a show of numbers. However, being among people in front of a band leads me to believe that all is not lost, that humans, now and then, can communicate on a higher level than the political and the practical.
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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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It is only our humanity that can deliver us from the brutality of our achievements.
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If I hear, 'Be afraid of Tehran,' I'm like, 'I'd better go to Tehran.'
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Never once have I thought that Social Security would be something that would ever be available to me.