Henry Rollins Quotes - Page 31

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• I am a white guy in America with an education, albeit high school, but a pretty good one. Another guy from a different demographic or different ethnicity in America can look at me and say, "You take a lot for granted." Well... okay. I just live in a white male American reality, where I hear you but I don't know if I necessarily read you.

  Henry Rollins

  School, Reality, Ethnicity

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

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• To justify being listened to, I try to be as well informed as I can. Hence, the travel. Reading is good too. Reading gets you part way there, and I do read pretty voraciously for a guy who's trying to write so much.

  Henry Rollins

  Reading, Writing, Guy

  Source: lithiummagazine.com

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• I've never killed anybody... but I've definitely thought about it. But that's how we are. That's what happens when you put people together and put them into societies and cultures and have laws and the idea of justice.

  Henry Rollins

  Law, Ideas, Justice

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

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• I remain hopeful that science, innovation and kindness will come to the fore as things become more and more tense in parts of the world. I think what you are seeing in the world right now is kind of a leveling or an attempt to level the playing field.

  Henry Rollins

  Kindness, Thinking, Hopeful

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

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• When you start thinking as far as what's a good photo, unfortunately everything starts looking like a good photo.

  Henry Rollins

  Thinking, Good Photo

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

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• If you watch a stretch of TV for a few hours, there is a good chance you'll hear me on some commercial or in some documentary or on a cartoon as some voice of a character.

  Henry Rollins

  Character, Voice, Cartoon

  Source: lithiummagazine.com

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• All of the jobs have gone away to satisfy the stockholders, so that's where the economy has gone. These major multinational corporations do not see their futures in America.

  Henry Rollins

  Jobs, Gone Away, America

  Source: www.sinicalmagazine.com

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• That's where the economy is going. It went somewhere. Just not to America. And the money made? That went to the Cayman Islands and Switzerland. Not back here. Never to be taxed.

  Henry Rollins

  America, Islands, Switzerland

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

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• I think that Goldman Sachs and the Pentagon determine more of America's outcome then any president or any congress, that sounds a bit cynical, but I think I am right.

  Henry Rollins

  Thinking, America, Cynical

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

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• What I'm saying is America has a job deficit because hundreds of thousands of jobs went elsewhere. Not because [Barack] Obama raised your taxes. He, in fact, lowered them. They are lower.

  Henry Rollins

  Jobs, America, Facts

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

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• I don't have any spiritual anything.You shoot a guy with a gun, he dies. You step on a bug, the bug dies. There is no heaven for me and no hell. And certainly not any Karma.

  Henry Rollins

  Karma, Spiritual, Gun

  Source: www.sinicalmagazine.com

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• There are religions and social and moral awareness in any society that gets passed immediately. Those human truths. All cultures address them.

  Henry Rollins

  Culture, Addresses, Moral

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

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• The bible saw that can get a lot of people killed, so let's try and steer people away from that. I am not an expert on the bible. I am just saying.

  Henry Rollins

  People, Trying, Saws

  Source: www.sinicalmagazine.com

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• I wouldn't want to roll the dice on Kabul by myself, because I really think getting killed is definitely a possibility there. A very good possibility.

  Henry Rollins

  Thinking, Kabul, Want

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

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• If I could go to Kabul and not die, I would go back to Afghanistan as soon as I could. And, that was the most interesting place that I've been to.

  Henry Rollins

  Interesting, Kabul, Afghanistan

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

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• While I disagree with our presence in Iraq and Afghanistan, I have nothing but respect and admiration for the men and women deployed in these places.

  Henry Rollins

  Men, Iraq, Admiration

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

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• I don't hate people - not remotely other than they make you crazy in traffic, but as I get older I kind of see more and more why people do what they do.

  Henry Rollins

  Hate, Crazy, People

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• I'm not trying to say I'm a big tough guy... I'm a typical American-waist deep in this violent culture.

  Henry Rollins

  Guy, Trying, Typical

  Source: oustedproductions.net

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• The talking shows allow me to come out of my cave and that's why those shows go on for so long. I hate walking off stage. Sometimes I walk off and I miss them as I'm walking off the stage. I wonder if they'll let me go another hour. That's why I do it: to communicate, to get points across.

  Henry Rollins

  Hate, Talking, Long

  Source: oustedproductions.net

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• It's always been impressive to me when someone can really do what they want onstage. The audience has confidence in the performer and the performer has confidence in the crowd.

  Henry Rollins

  Crowds, Want, Impressive

  Source: oustedproductions.net

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• What stands out to me in America was all the police vs. citizens turmoil. It's decades of bad policing, bad schooling, racism, bigotry and other factors finally spilling into mainstream culture. I would like to see America evolve on how the laws are enforced on the streets.

  Henry Rollins

  Law, Mainstream Culture, America

  Source: eluxemagazine.com

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• Quite often governments are one way and the people are another.

  Henry Rollins

  Government, People, Way

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Bono actually gets a lot of substantial work done. The guy really does put a lot of things together and, while I'm not a fan of his music, I greatly applaud his humanitarian efforts.

  Henry Rollins

  Effort, Guy, Together

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• What I've found is that a lot of soldiers are surprisingly apolitical. Their reality is, "Today I'm going to leave the gate for twelve hours, and I'm going to make it back to the dining facility by sundown with the arms and legs of me and my buddies intact."

  Henry Rollins

  Reality, Soldier, Twelve

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• You can say, "Well, I have a question," and someone will say, "Oh, so you hate America." And it has nothing to do with the discussion at all.

  Henry Rollins

  Hate, America, Wells

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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