Henry Rollins Quotes - Page 6

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• The first several years of my life were used to upload incredible amounts of fear, and I just became afraid of everything. I was afraid of my parents, afraid of my classmates, afraid of the streets of Washington, D.C. I would flinch at every gesture.

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  Years, Parent, Gestures

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• It's one thing to buy a copy of 'Atlas Shrugged.' You actually have to read it to get anything out of it.

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  Atlas, Copies, One Thing

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• Why let your fury lay deep inside you, sullenly boiling your blood into silent steam and griding your bones to dust? I it not better to thrust it out with great velocity from every pore, with your every action? Let your actions speak your legend. The physical is the manifestation of the spirit. Let your spirit be teeming with fury. Let your strength be unusual and controlled. The average is the borderline that keeps mere men in their place. Those who step over the line are heroes by the very act. Go.

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  Hero, Men, Dust

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• Youth is fleeting and life is short, you might as well strike hard. Anything else is just average.

  Henry Rollins

  Life Is Short, Average, Fleeting

  Source: www.pmakid.com

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• My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.

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  Optimistic, Optimism, Boots

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• I think marriage is a boring and fault-ridden contractual obligation.

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  Thinking, Faults, Boring

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• For the last 30-plus years, I have been doing one long, uninterrupted improv.

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  Years, Long, Lasts

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• The fact is, in the minds of many, Trayvon Martin received the appropriate punishment for a true crime: He was black, male and dared to walk outside. In life, young Trayvon was just a teenager; in death, he has been transformed into a scary, lurking, suspicious, prone-to-violence spook.

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  Teenager, Punishment, Scary

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• I don't hate the government. I don't think the Second Amendment is being infringed upon.

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  Hate, Thinking, Government

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• I prefer to work out alone. It enables me to concentrate on the lessons that the Iron has for me.

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  Iron Will, Lifting Weights, Work Out

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• I will do my best to dodge tonight's depression Hide in sleep Damage myself in dreams Wake up older, slightly more used.

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  Dream, Sleep, Wake Up

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• Sometimes I would get invited to a party or to go out to dinner by one of them and I would decline. Part of me wanted to go, but those kind of outings always made me feel even more alienated than usual. Hearing them talk made me feel lonely and hateful at the same time. Lonely because I didn't fit in, never did. When I was reminded, it hurt. And hateful because it reaffirmed what I already knew, that I was alone and on the outside.

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  Lonely, Hurt, Party

  Henry Rollins (2009). “The Portable Henry Rollins”, p.33, Villard

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• Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn't worth the time and effort.

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  Journey, Men, Thinking

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• As you do with any band you're in, you get to know everyone too well all too soon. When you're crammed into a small space, proximity leads to familiarity.

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  Space, Band, Proximity

  Source: emptylighthouse.com

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• We Americans are hard on almost everything. We are hard on our vehicles, our marriages and our heroes. Mostly, however, we are hard on ourselves.

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  Hero, Vehicle, Hard

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• Look, it's a monster. He's walking alone. Look, he's pulling something out of his pocket. He threw it on the ground. Let's go see what it is. It's a black box. You open it... ok... Look, it's sorrow, misery and pain. It's loneliness and longing. Boy, he'll be sorry he lost these.

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  Sorry, Pain, Loneliness

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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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  Gay, People, Personality

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• Collecting records is, for many, beyond a hobby.

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  Hobbies, Records, Collecting

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• I get tired of talking when I want to be silent.

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  Tired, Talking, Want

  Henry Rollins (2009). “The Portable Henry Rollins”, p.323, Villard

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• The blues is losing someone you love and not having enough money to immerse yourself in drink.

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  Love, Money, Losing Someone

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• I don't want to fail the audience. I don't want to let them down.

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  Want, Failing, Audience

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• I don't mean to be arrogant and I really appreciate my fans but talking about what I am doing is not something I'm good at. I do what I do and that's it. I want to get back to my work and do more of it instead of talking about it.

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  Mean, Talking, Appreciate

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• In Israel, there's a lot to learn from anyone, because to live there you've got to deal with the truth. Things happen real fast. Your day goes from cool to catastrophic in one second. Israelis know that the cafe you're in could blow up, or the shopping mall, and they rock that.

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  Real, Blow, Shopping

  "Tough-talker Henry Rollins Is Back, Keeping Things Israel". Interview with Anthony Layser, www.tvguide.com. April 13, 2007.

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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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  School, Sound, Fans

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• Disappointment always arrives before hope and the darkness of night comes before the dawn. Don't lose hope now because things will brighter with the new day.

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  Good Night, Goodnight, Disappointment

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