Henry Rollins Quotes - Page 20

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• Being unique is never easy, and often, by the time culture catches up with you, there are only a few people who notice.

  Henry Rollins

  Unique, People, Culture

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• I have come to the conclusion that it's a waste of time to have too much pride in anything. Perhaps it's good to have a sense of duty, a jealous zeal to protect or improve, but pride ultimately is only that which stands vulnerable to offense and degradation.

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  Jealous, Pride, Degradation

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• Texas is as odd as it is vast.

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  Texas, Odd

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• There is no place in the world like Australia. Not even its beautiful neighbor New Zealand.

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  Beautiful, Australia, World

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• It is only our humanity that can deliver us from the brutality of our achievements.

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  Achievement, Humanity, Brutality

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• I'm pessimistic. I don't think that justice always gets the right person.

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  Thinking, Justice, Pessimistic

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• The tasks I set out for myself are what I do to beat the perfect pointlessness of life.

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  Perfect, Tasks, Beats

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

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  Country, Thinking, People

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• Questioning anything and everything, to me, is punk rock.

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  Rocks, Anything And Everything, Punk

  "What is Punk?" by Henry Rollins, bigthink.com. 2017.

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• I used to sit on the roof of the apartment where Jim Morrison used to write his early lyrics

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  Writing, Used, Roof

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• I wonder if the guy at the gun store would give me a discount on the bullets I'll need if I told him what I was up to.

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  Gun, Giving, Guy

  Henry Rollins (1996). “Eye Scream”, 2 13 61

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• I would like to become a better photographer. I'm working on that.

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  Photographer

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• I'm not exactly ambitious as much as I have a very good realization of what I am and what I am capable of.

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  Ambitious, Realization, Very Good

  "HENRY ROLLINS: 'I Like Stress; It Keeps Me Rockin''". "Full Metal Jackie" with Jackie Kajzer, www.blabbermouth.net. December 30, 2012.

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• If the Constitution was a movie, the Preamble would be the trailer, the First Amendment the establishing shot, the 13th the crowd pleaser and the 14th the ultimate hero scene.

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  Hero, Would Be, Crowds

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• August brings into sharp focus and a furious boil everything I've been listening to in the late spring and summer.

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  Summer, Spring, August

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• Guns are part of the American identity.

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  Gun, Identity, American Identity

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• If a slave were to raise his voice to his master, he risked all manner of punishment. Yet what was possible in many circumstances was to lift one's voice in song. This was a major ingredient in what is now known as blues and gospel. Slaves may have been regarded as subhuman by their cruel captors, but through music, they were proud and dignified.

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  Song, Voice, Punishment

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• August in sub-Saharan Los Angeles is one of the great and awful tests of one's endurance, sanity and stamina.

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  August, Endurance, Tests

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• If you think about it, every single species is endangered. Homo sapiens at the front of the line, mosquitoes and lawyers at the back.

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  Thinking, Mosquitoes, Lines

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• For me, returning to Los Angeles annihilates the memories of where I have just been with an astonishing speed.

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  Memories, Speed, Los Angeles

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• I'm not into fame. I'm not into making money, outside of financing my books. I'm not into status. My thing is basically about time - not wasting it.

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  Book, Making Money, Fame

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• I've never heard Daft Punk; I've never heard a track of theirs in my life. They're the two guys with motorcycle helmets on?

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  Two, Track, Guy

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• Being in New York is an almost overwhelming experience. While Washington, D.C., is my favorite American city, I regard New York City as the most amazing city in the world. No other comes close. It is an incredible, inexhaustible engine.

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  New York, Cities, World

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• Now and then, someone is able to look at an empty space, conclude it would be a great place to start a revolution, and bravely go forward.

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  Space, Would Be, Looks

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• Where there is young people and vitality, you're going to find punk rock.

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  Rocks, People, Vitality

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