Henry Rollins Quotes - Page 15

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• I slept in Uday Hussein's bed - that was just so strange. Went to Saddam's palace, was in a mortar attack - crazy stuff. And like three days later you're back in traffic on Sunset Boulevard. It's all kind of behind you, which is kind of perfect for a guy like me because I can take that and turn it into quite the tale.

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  Crazy, Sunset, Perfect

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• I like the sound of my voice, doesn't mean it's any good but I like it. The joke is that "all good singers like the sound of their own voice" so we'll go with that.

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  Mean, Voice, Sound

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

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• Whether I will be remembered at all, I really don't get to choose, unless I shoot someone famous. It's not really anything I have much control over.

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  Remembered

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

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• We are misery-making machines! Homo sapiens has perfected the art of causing suffering. Pain is humankind's collective GDP.

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  Art, Pain, Gdp

  "Pain and Gain" by Henry Rollins, www.laweekly.com. March 6, 2014.

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• When I am in Africa, I always have the feeling that it's where everything started. When I am in New York, I know it is where everything ended up.

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  New York, Feelings, Knows

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• I have had a number of less-than-enviable moments in my life when dealing with other people. I won't attempt to blunt that by saying I am not the only one.

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  Numbers, People, Moments

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• When you title yourself, you immediately lend yourself to all kinds of pretension

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  Titles, Kind, All Kinds

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• I was in Pakistan in Islamabad when Bhutto was assassinated, and the next day, you know, there's just plumes of smoke everywhere. I mean, Islamabad is on fire.

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  Mean, Fire, Next Day

  "America, Meet the Rest of the World" by Henry Rollins, bigthink.com. 2017.

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• With age, life becomes complex and difficult, often fraught with risk on several levels, from the practical to the fiscal.

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  Risk, Age, Levels

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• 'The Great Gatsby' is a book I have read a few times, and it seems to get heavier every time I come to visit.

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  Book, Seems

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• Someone like Ashlee Simpson, she lip-synchs on 'Saturday Night Live,' gets totally called out la Milli Vanilli, and no one really cares that much. It doesn't make me hate Ashlee; she's just taking instructions.

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  Hate, Night, Care

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• I got three letters today telling me that I'm god. Why can't I pay the rent?

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  Three, Letters, Pay

  Henry Rollins (1992). “Black Coffee Blues”

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• The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was vigorously and vociferously opposed by the Southern states. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed it into law nonetheless.

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  Rights, Law, Southern

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• The Bad Seeds are a band I will travel a great distance to see whenever possible.

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  Distance, Band, Bad Seed

  "How We Met". Interview with Nicholas Barber, The Independent, March 23, 1997.

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• It is just that I don't want a wife and I don't want kids.

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  Children, Kids, Wife

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• For many, an album is no longer a considerable feat of an artist but just sounds to be half-listened to while one is halfheartedly engaged in something else.

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  Artist, Sound, Albums

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• Young, gay and stuck in Arkansas? Sounds like a horror flick.

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  Gay, Sound, Arkansas

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• Lou Reed's music has been in the lives of millions of people all over the world for decades. He had a truly universal presence and was respected by musicians across all genres.

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  People, Reeds, Musician

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• You could split hairs and bring up words like 'doo-wop' and terms like 'soul' or 'R&B', but I think pop music is what you want it to be - that's why it's pop.

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  Thinking, Hair, Soul

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• If you listen to the way I speak and watch the way I conduct myself - there's nothing about me that's rock n' roll. It's like, 'Hello, I'm in a rock n' roll band'. 'No, you're a narc.'

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  Rocks, Watches, Band

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• Nothing moves me more than the history of the United States.

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  Moving, United States, States

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• For many years, I tried to make New Year's resolutions. I made lists and shot for great heights: I would show altruism and exert moral strength, patience and all those other great attributes.

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  New Year, Years, Height

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• In the late summer of 1986, the band I had been in for five years stopped playing. Suddenly, I was on my own. This new state of bandlessness was, at first, traumatic. When your group breaks up, a lot of broken parts hit the ground.

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  Summer, Years, Broken

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• 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.

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  Country, Men, Faces

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• Rarely do I do film press because I'm so low on the food chain of the movie, and for me it's just this thing I did for four weeks before the next tour started.

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  Four, Next, Film

  "EXCLUSIVE: Talking TV, Movies and Punk Rock with Henry Rollins". Interview with Evan Jacobs, movieweb.com. May 4, 2006.

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