Henry Rollins Quotes
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Some people see Black Friday as a much-needed break for their wallet. I see it as retail outlets showing the customers the full weight of their contempt. The frenzy to buy cheap crap from China, the human downgrade of people fighting with each other over items they can probably live without, to me, is an insult.
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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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I am the assasin of my dreams.
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It'll destroy you if you try to make it mean anything to anyone but yourself.
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The streets lie, the sidewalks lie, everything lies You can try and read it but you're gonna get it wrong...all wrong The summer evenings burn and melt and the nights glitter but you're gonna get it wrong And it's gonna sink its teeth into your flesh and pull you to the bottom.
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I get angry about stuff, I get very emotionally intense about stuff and that's how I get it out - with books, with the band, on my own onstage, but it's always kind of a wail.
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Think about it: No matter who you are, the past plays a large part in your life. I am all about living in the present as best as I can. Try as I might, there is only so much I am able to achieve on this front.
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I’m packed with broken glass and memories and it all hurts.
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I have been an XL fan of Devo since I was in high school in the 1970s. Their records only sound better with time.
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There's nothing new about the government protecting corporations and calling it the freeing of the world or bringing democracy to bereft nations.
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Don't push me I've got a corner at my back I've nowhere to go except over you.
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Pizza makes me think that anything is possible.
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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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In my world there would be as many public libraries as there are Starbucks.
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Quite often governments are one way and the people are another.
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Gay people don't have a personality problem. They have a problem with small-minded motherfuckers who can't conquer a 1-inch high curb.
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I can only write about personal stuff, about my point of view.
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I would like to become a better photographer. I'm working on that.
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It is just that I don't want a wife and I don't want kids.
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It's good to be able to deal with it [anger] somehow other than drinking, fighting, crashing cars, hitting your kid, your wife, your husband, your whatever. Paintbrushes, pens, movie cameras, guitars, microphones, typewriters -- these are good things. Weights. These are positive ways, good ways to deal with anger, frustration, alienation, rage. 'Cause all the other ways do nothing but hurt people.
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I'm not trying to say I'm a big tough guy... I'm a typical American-waist deep in this violent culture.
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Do it or don't. It's amazing how many things in life are that easy.
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Knowledge without mileage equals bullshit.
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I can say that American men and women in the Military are damn impressive.