1,228 Quotes by Henry Rollins


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    This is my own little rock theory: In my mind, Nirvana slayed the hair bands. They shot the top off the poodles.

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    When I am in Africa, I realize I don't know much, have not seen much, and there's a lot to be done.

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    When the Iron doesn’t want to come off the mat, it’s the kindest thing it can do for you. If it flew up and went through the ceiling, it wouldn’t teach you anything.

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    I think hip-hop has definitely brought the black experience to white kids more than the civil rights movement did and more than any teacher’s well-intentioned lecture on Martin Luther King did.

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    I really like older writers, perhaps because they take me out of my element. I don’t have a great deal of interest in reading a fictionalized present as it’s pretty insane as it is.

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    Strength is the product of struggle, you must do what others don’t to achieve what others won’t.

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    Books are cool, but knowledge without mileage doesn’t mean anything to me.

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    Ramones music has a Pavlovian effect on me – the song starts, and the world blurs around the sound.

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