"I try to be well informed. I don't know how well I do all the time, but I try nonetheless."
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Henry Rollins quotes (page 25 of 46)
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"I thought I was gonna be in the minimum-wage working world all my life."
"I think Perry Ferrell put independent music on a very good path with Lollapalooza."
"I think more airtime should be given to Donald Trump and Orly Taitz. They should run for office together. They should open for Charlie Sheen."
"I never had any interest in being involved with the Boy Scouts."
"I like boring black and white films with subtitles. I'm basically a drip."
"I have been restless for as long as I can remember."
"I don't cuss in songs. It's too easy."
"I come from a town of great musicians: Washington, D.C. It's no joke, that history."
"Fish is the only kind of respirating thing that I consume. Everything else I don't want any part of."
"I don't know if music has ever achieved anything past appealing to the people that it appeals to. If a song could stop a war, then Bob Marley and Bob Dylan songs would have stopped one or two."
"I hate painting with a broad brush, but I think the birther thing, at its root, is racist. The guy was born in Hawaii. A black guy is president. It's cool. Get over it. Just deal with it. There's nothing you could show these birther people that would shut them up."
"The Ruts were a great punk rock band from England whose songs were as excellent as their time together was short."
"I don't need to have my convictions confirmed by a show of numbers. However, being among people in front of a band leads me to believe that all is not lost, that humans, now and then, can communicate on a higher level than the political and the practical."
"I don't believe it mattered to Timothy McVeigh who was president or who his congressional representative was when he blew up the Murrah Building in 1995."
"Every politician, every president gets votes by getting people that don't like him to like him. That's why politicians are slippery: because they talk out of both sides of their mouth."
"Enough Americans saw fit to give president Obama a second term. I don't think there will be many people keeping their Romney/Ryan bumper stickers on their cars."
"As the middle class is predated upon with an ever greater malicious intensity, their children stand to lose more and harder than their parents ever did."
"I have lived in public as a somewhat recognizable person since I was a teenager. Emails I answer end up posted on sites; pictures of me and someone I just met, taken by a cellphone, literally number in the thousands and are easily accessed."
"Juan Williams is a very sharp guy."