Henry Rollins Quotes
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It is only our humanity that can deliver us from the brutality of our achievements.
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I warn people, your 40s will require massive amounts of humor and humility.
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No one should die when they're 50.
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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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It's hard to get along with people. As much as you try to like them and accept them as individuals, it becomes difficult because they keep getting out of line and wasting your time.
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Hopefully, one enhances [when growing older] his sense of humor. As he approaches 50, he'll need all the humor he can get.
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Mr. Christ, I read you as an infinitely patient entity who, as they say, often works in mysterious ways, a rebel unafraid to take the tougher, less traveled paths. Seems to me you're playing the long game. Is that why more states are coming out in favor of marriage equality? Is that why the Affordable Care Act is now with us?
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There's something about being under-rested and knowing that the situation is going to remain that way for quite some time that makes things more meaningful.
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Perfection. I have been waiting all my life to be with you. My heart slams against my ribs when I think of the slaughtered nights I spent all over the world waiting to feel your touch.
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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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I get along with Australians really well. Everyone's usually really cool, and it's always a drag to leave.
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Life is death in slow motion.
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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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I think that Goldman Sachs and the Pentagon determine more of America's outcome then any president or any congress, that sounds a bit cynical, but I think I am right.
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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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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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I would like to be able to gently drift in and out of existence when I wanted to.
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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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Strength is the product of struggle, you must do what others don't to achieve what others won't.
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It's hard to judge literary merit.
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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 think I am the most impressed with writing styles that defy category, like Kharms or Selby, Breton or Jarry, where you become as interested in the writer as much as the writing itself. It's all these things that make reading so appealing to me.
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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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The arts in America exist in spite of America, not because of America.