Henry Rollins Quotes
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The more you own, the more it owns you.
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I like how I write better than how I speak.
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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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Creating problems is easy. We do it all the time. Finding solutions, ones that last and produce good results, requires guts and care.
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Some people tell me that they like what I do, which is great, of course. The perfect irony and truth is that I need them much more than they need me.
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The world's a better place since I chose music.
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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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You have to realize there are other people, other economies, governments, cultures, religions, and destinies going on at the same time as yours. You have to widen the scope of your lens and start seeing more.
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So, one way or another, I found myself in a few movies. I take it seriously when I'm on the set, but I don't take myself seriously as an actor.
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Questioning anything and everything, to me, is punk rock.
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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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I get along with Australians really well. Everyone's usually really cool, and it's always a drag to leave.
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If the truth is told how I want to be remembered... as someone who cared. Someone who worked really hard and someone who didn't sit around.
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I hate it when men go to strip bars. It lowers the rest of us that know if a man has to pay to see a woman naked, he is a loser and probably should get weeded out.
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Imagine someone so infatuated by a band that they have every different pressing of every album the band made. Most of the time, the only difference in the album is the matrix number or a different 'made in' notation on the back cover or label. This is enough to make some people extremely excited. Actually, much more than excited.
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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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It's hard to judge literary merit.
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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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If I'm in L.A. for longer than 20 days, I'm looking for work, because I don't do vacations.
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I hate painting with a broad brush, but I think the birther thing, at its root, is racist. The guy was born in Hawaii. A black guy is president. It's cool. Get over it. Just deal with it. There's nothing you could show these birther people that would shut them up.
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The arts in America exist in spite of America, not because of America.
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Life is death in slow motion.
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I'll be here tomorrow If I can make it through today.
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It is only our humanity that can deliver us from the brutality of our achievements.