As long as I tell the truth I feel that nobody can touch me.
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Don't do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul. When you go to work, work your ass off. When you hate someone, hate them until it hurts.
- Henry Rollins Quote

Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated.
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I am an optimist because I want to change things for the better and I know that blood has to be spilled and disharmony and cruelty are necessary to do that.
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I can deal with people who watch me on stage but I am not good in communicating with people any other way than through my work.
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I can only write about personal stuff, about my point of view.
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I don't believe in fate or destiny. I believe in various degrees of hatred, paranoia, and abandonment. However much of that gets heaped upon you doesn't matter - it's only a matter of how much you can take and what it does to you.
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I don't mind The Boss. I think he's an honest guy. I have some of his records, not all of them. I've met a couple of the E-Street guys, and they seem really cool.
- Henry Rollins Quote

I forged myself out of a vacuum. I crawl along the highway on hacked off stumps year after year. Some wonder how and why. I never do.
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I just get things done instead of talking about getting them done. I don't go out and party. I don't smoke, drink or do drugs and I'm not married, that leaves a lot of time for my work.
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I mean I appreciate fan mail and that the people like what I am doing but I can't answer it. If I would answer 25 letters a day I would be just a guy answering mail and not an artist anymore.
- Henry Rollins Quote

I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.
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I want to change things for the better, just like everybody else.
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I'm most in my element on tour, with a gig that day, like today. I'm on the road where I am supposed to be. I will be where I'm supposed to be at nighttime, on stage, in front of people, doing my thing.
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In the summer of '84, you just couldn't escape the Born in the USA record.
- Henry Rollins Quote

It is just that I don't want a wife and I don't want kids.
- Henry Rollins Quote

Keep your blood clean, your body lean, and your mind sharp.
- Henry Rollins Quote

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.
- Henry Rollins Quote

My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.
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Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.
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So, one way or another, I found myself in a few movies. I take it seriously when I'm on the set, but I don't take myself seriously as an actor.
- Henry Rollins Quote

Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good.
- Henry Rollins Quote

The only difference between me and others is that they think they can change something with cute little poems, nice cards or embracing trees and being nice to little lapdogs.
- Henry Rollins Quote

This is my 25th year of being on stage. A lot of people who I kind of toed up to the starting line with are no longer in this position. I feel very, very lucky.
- Henry Rollins Quote

To hate is to show you still care, who needs that, focus on what's really important.
- Henry Rollins Quote

What I don't want to do is go out there and not be able to mean it, you know?
- Henry Rollins Quote

Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn't worth the time and effort.
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