Henry Rollins Quotes About Country

Quotes about: Country

• A great way to learn about your country is to leave it.

  Henry Rollins

  Funny, Country, Learning

• I beg young people to travel. If you don't have a passport, get one. Take a summer, get a backpack and go to Delhi, go to Saigon, go to Bangkok, go to Kenya. Have your mind blown. Eat interesting food. Dig some interesting people. Have an adventure. Be careful. Come back and you're going to see your country differently, you're going to see your president differently, no matter who it is. Music, culture, food, water. Your showers will become shorter. You're going to get a sense of what globalization looks like.

  Henry Rollins

  Summer, Country, Travel

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• Probably over half of America does not have a passport. If young people could spend two weeks of their life in India or pick an African country to go to for 2-3 weeks and really see how life can be. That might be a real good thing because I think they would see things even if the trip was a nightmare. I think they might understand more of the mechanics of the world.

  Henry Rollins

  Country, Real, Thinking

  Source: www.sinicalmagazine.com

• I have been curious about Haiti for many years. The history of the country is as fascinating as it is turbulent.

  Henry Rollins

  Country, Years, Haiti

• Politics is a thing that I follow because it determines what is going on in my country, but I vote and deal with politicians with a great degree of jaundiced eye.

  Henry Rollins

  Country, Eye, Degrees

  Source: lithiummagazine.com

• Nelson Mandela will always be the face of South Africa. The traveler passing through the country will see Mandela's face almost everywhere he looks. Truly, the man is omnipresent.

  Henry Rollins

  Country, Men, Faces

• The most interesting place by far was Afghanistan. Just because it is a place that I cannot see myself living. The hardness of the people and the history of the country is just so completely intense.

  Henry Rollins

  Country, People, Interesting

  Interview with Danny Stygion, www.sinicalmagazine.com. October 1, 2011.

• America is a country born from semi-mythologized blood, glory and acts of selfless patriotic sacrifice.

  Henry Rollins

  Country, Patriotic, Sacrifice

• I think that America certainly has racism, I think that any industrialized country does. But when you see how many million fans Barack Obama has who are not black, it would lead one to the conclusion that millions of Americans are in fact not burdened by the albatross of racism.

  Henry Rollins

  Country, Thinking, America

  "Henry Rollins - Recountdown Tour 2008 Update". Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. October 28, 2008.

• I've enjoyed, to a certain extent, any country I've been in, of course like Serbia and Croatia can be very restrictive and oppressive, and frustrating, but they're still very beautiful.

  Henry Rollins

  Beautiful, Country, Croatia

• A country that has been through as much as Vietnam has to have some crazy music somewhere.

  Henry Rollins

  Country, Crazy, Vietnam

• I think young people should travel and travel often to other countries like I do.

  Henry Rollins

  Country, Thinking, People

• I have a house, I try to spend as little time in it as possible. Not always easy on the mind and body, but it's how I got myself to 80-plus countries. This kind of routine forces one to reinvent and improvise. The older I get, the more important this is to me.

  Henry Rollins

  Country, House, Mind

• When people make my country look bad, I can't stand it.

  Henry Rollins

  Country, People, Looks

• Barack Obama's administration responded to the Haitian crisis within 24 hours. Here comes the soldiers, here comes the food, go go go... Rush Limbaugh told his multi-millions of listeners that Obama only did that to gain favour with black people in America. This is the kind of idiocy that I have to deal with in my country.

  Henry Rollins

  Country, America, People

• The government is a functionary of the corporations - and there's nothing new about that. You can find people in the 1930s talking about the army basically working for Wall Street in all of these countries [it invades].

  Henry Rollins

  Country, Wall, Army

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• Retirement in another country is your body is too racked with pain and your hands are too arthritic from the life in the rice patty fields, so you can't work anymore.

  Henry Rollins

  Country, Retirement, Pain

  Interview with Danny Stygion, www.sinicalmagazine.com. October 1, 2011.

• America is off-the-hook gay. I will not go all Ann Coulter on you and say, 'Our gays are better than their gays,' but as far as countries go, we are in-your-face gay.

  Henry Rollins

  Country, Gay, America

• My favorite species to study would be Cobras and King Cobras which are two different families. They're very intelligent, and they're beautiful looking animals. Where they come from are countries and regions which I spend a lot of time in - South East Asia and India, those are places I go to fairly often, and so the cobras are my main interest. It's not a snake I can maintain, but when I see them in zoos and what not, I find them interesting.

  Henry Rollins

  Beautiful, Country, Kings

  "Henry Rollins and a Whole Lot of Snakes". Interview with Jeff Jetton, brightestyoungthings.com. April 29, 2011.

• People look at things differently. Imagine going to a village in Southern Sudan and try to explain to someone there the concept of life insurance or retirement. Go to Vietnam and say retirement. Retirement in another country is your body is too racked with pain and your hands are too arthritic from the life in the rice patty fields, so you can't work anymore. So you move in with your son and his new wife takes care of you because that's how families work there.

  Henry Rollins

  Country, Retirement, Pain

  Interview with Danny Stygion, www.sinicalmagazine.com. October 1, 2011.

• George Zimmerman is a foot soldier in a rapidly privatizing country. He is a new centurion of 21st-century America. Law enforcement is tied down by the strictures of, well, the law. There is only 'so much they can do' to take care of the 'problem.'

  Henry Rollins

  Country, Law, Feet

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