Henry Rollins Quotes
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Songs sung under duress are often very powerful.
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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'm a recognizable person and some people feel the need for some reason to take me to task. You're really messing with the wrong person on that one.
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I've never raped or killed anybody, or hurt a kid. I've done all the more inept, high-volume stuff - like, "Whoops, sorry I came in your hair. Don't worry, I won't use your name when I tell this story on stage."
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People will remember that the Tea Party was co-opted and funded by billion-dollar corporations, and that it was supported by Fox News and other outlets with the same vigor with which they attempt to denigrate the Occupy protesters.
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Travelling as extensively as I do... the take away for me has made me very humble and very sympathetic to other people's plight in the world and very desirous of being proactive in being part of a solution somehow and not part of a problem. It's made me very patient and very grateful for where I live.
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I can only write about personal stuff, about my point of view.
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Without the blues, modern music would be nothing like it is now - not remotely.
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Quite often governments are one way and the people are another.
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It'll destroy you if you try to make it mean anything to anyone but yourself.
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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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Not that the writers weren't good. I believe in those books and those writers very much. It's just that in the climate it's really hard to keep the lights on and the doors open when you're selling poetry and literature that appeals to a fringe audience.
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I'm a professional food eater.
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I spend a lot of time alone so I get a lot done. I don't do much else but work, check things out.
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I think Americans suffer for their lack of travel, awareness of the world. It has horribly warped our sense of place in the scheme of things.
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The fact is that I am always thinking of something to build. A new book, radio show, plans for a trip somewhere. I am not a very happy person but I feel pretty even when I am working, so I guess that is how I am wired.
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There’s got to be someone for me. It’s not too much to ask. Just someone to be with. Someone to love. Someone to give everything to. Someone.
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Change is hard, but change is good.
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I think as resources become more dear, we really need to consider population.
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Nothing moves me more than the history of the United States.
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I can say that American men and women in the Military are damn impressive.
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In my world there would be as many public libraries as there are Starbucks.
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Sometimes you can get so far in yourself that you don't know who you are.
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The ones who don't do anything are always the ones who try to pull you down.