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“There’s one thing about Black Sabbath which should not be understated: If Black Sabbath is missing any one of its members it’s no longer Black Sabbath.”
-- Henry Rollins
#Missing #Black #Should
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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
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“Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.”
-- Henry Rollins
#Life #Depressing #Loneliness
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“I have no pride about anything I have done. It's just not the way I think about things. I do the work, always, as hard as I can, to the point of pain, injury, exhaustion, if that is what it takes. Once I am done, I move on.”
-- Henry Rollins
#Pain #Moving #Pride
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“I want a soul mate who can sit me down, shut me up, tell me ten things I don’t already know, and make me laugh. I don’t care what you look like, just turn me on. And if you can do that, I will follow you on bloody stumps through the snow. I will nibble your mukluks with my own teeth. I will do your windows. I will care about your feelings. Just have something in there.”
-- Henry Rollins
#Laughing #Snow #Soul
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“The lowest stress environment is the radio show. I am not on camera and I can let the music do the talking. The rest is more highly pressurized or in the case of writing, time intensive task. I say yes to all of it and like all of it but the radio show, by nature of what it is, is the least hassle.”
-- Henry Rollins
#Stress #Writing #Talking
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“We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.”
-- Henry Rollins
#Life Lesson #Acceptance #Rejection
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“I live my life through the prism of capitalism and physiological limits and eventualities. In all of that, there is no spirituality required. No God and karma is needed for the numbers. I live my life by the numbers. Not only am I an American, I am an Americanist.”
-- Henry Rollins
#Karma #Numbers #Limits
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“I have found the Iron to be my greatest friend. It never freaks out on me, never runs. Friends may come and go. But two hundred pounds is always two hundred pounds”
-- Henry Rollins
#Strength #Running #Two
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“I can't imagine being sixty years of age and playing music I wrote when I was in my twenties. I would rather sail the sea of consequence to new lands. Laps around the shallow end of the pool, not for me.”
-- Henry Rollins
#Years #Sea #Land
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“I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.”
-- Henry Rollins
#Inspirational #Life #Friends
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“There is a concerted effort to keep you and me, you know, the people, away from what it [war]really looks like, 'cause when you're selling war, when it's such a big industry. What they don't tell you is the rest of it and the down side of it. And so obviously there is a lot of money and a lot of time and effort being spent on that campaign "perpetual war for perpetual peace".”
-- Henry Rollins
#War #People #Effort
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“It's so painful to be next to someone you feel strongly about and know you can't say the things you want to.”
-- Henry Rollins
#Want #Next #Painful
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“I want my fellow citizens to wise up and stop falling for [war]. I try with my limited access, I'm not getting into Kabul with a camera, they're not letting me get into Benghazi with a camera. I do what I can with my flimsy American passport and a visa. The photos are a bit more heavy from Southern Sudan and Haiti and Cuba.”
-- Henry Rollins
#Wise #War #Fall
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“I simply cannot understand how any parent could kill themselves,”
-- Henry Rollins
#Parent
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“Nietzsche, who you don't spend too much time with after the age of seventeen, did have that one great line about "he who stares into the abyss must know that the abyss also stares into him" and I never really understood that until my friend got killed and you really get your head around the idea of what horror means. It's a truly awful thing, to really, kind of have that understanding of things and when you really peer into that.”
-- Henry Rollins
#Mean #Ideas #Understanding
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“A great way to learn about your country is to leave it.”
-- Henry Rollins
#Country #Way
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“There's a lot of stuff like that that American's don't know and since a lot of Americans don't have a passport, I'll get a passport for them and since a lot of Americans don't know what a war looks like thirty, forty years laterand it's still doing damage.”
-- Henry Rollins
#War #Years #Looks
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“All by yourself, unable to express the pain of your distress with your deeper inside. You alienate yourself and everybody else.”
-- Henry Rollins
#Pain #Revenge #Retribution
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“Americans are poorly served by their media, you know, for the war machine and propaganda machine and the global empire and they're poorly served by what they are being told is representative government.”
-- Henry Rollins
#War #Media #Government
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“I definitely learned a lesson this time. I know that I can be broken. I am not as tough as I thought. I see it now. At this point, it's the only thing good that came out of all of this. I know myself better now and know what I have to do.”
-- Henry Rollins
#Broken #Lessons #Tough
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“We Americans look funny when we're in France because we don't travel, we are fairly un-cultured whereas Europeans go to Africa all the time because it's right there.”
-- Henry Rollins
#Looks #France
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“You don't make me feel like you used to. That's why I'm leaving That's why people leave each other They come to their senses and get selfish again.”
-- Henry Rollins
#Selfish #People #Leaving
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“I'm so burned out, the only person I can stand is myself. I'm the only one I would put through this. Wheels and wings, The ride is everything. I'm all I've got. I'm all I can take. Another day has destroyed a part of me. So far so good.”
-- Henry Rollins
#Wings #Another Day #Wheels
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“Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.”
-- Henry Rollins
#Life #Stay Strong #Moving
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“Strength is the product of struggle, you must do what others don't to achieve what others won't.”
-- Henry Rollins
#Struggle #Achieve
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“There is no heaven for me and no hell. And certainly not any Karma.”
-- Henry Rollins
#Karma #Heaven #Hell
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“Go without a coat when it's cold; find out what cold is. Go hungry; keep your existence lean. Wear away the fat, get down to the lean tissue and see what it's all about. The only time you define your character is when you go without. In times of hardship, you find out what you're made of and what you're capable of. If you're never tested, you'll never define you character.”
-- Henry Rollins
#Character #Coats #Hardship
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“I don't get a rush from anything. I did music as hard as I could. Acting for me at least, is a far more restrained performance than music. It requires a lot of skill and discipline. I'm not any good at it but I enjoy trying to be good at it.”
-- Henry Rollins
#Skills #Discipline #Trying
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“It is impossible, after a certain point, to go back to a previous way of life, a previous way of thinking.”
-- Henry Rollins
#Thinking #Way #Impossible
