Henry Rollins

Henry Rollins

"Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on."
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"Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on."
Henry Rollins
"Weakness is what brings ignorance, cheapness, racism, homophobia, desperation, cruelty, brutality, all these things that will keep a society chained to the ground, one foot nailed to the floor."
Henry Rollins
"Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own."
Henry Rollins
"So I'm more at home with my backpack, sleeping in a hotel room or on a bus or on an airplane, than I am necessarily on a bed. It's weird being here. It feels like I'm standing next to my real life."
Henry Rollins
"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."
Henry Rollins
"To anger female voters in America is to tread on the tiger's tail. Women turn out in huge numbers, and they are well aware of how their bodies work and what they need."
Henry Rollins
"When people hold you in high esteem, it's very delicate relationship. When they meet you they're putting all their chips up. It's make or break."
Henry Rollins
"Everyone who knows me knows that I'm a hopeless romantic who listens to love ballads and doo-wop songs all the time."
Henry Rollins
"SMi LE' is perhaps the Beach Boys' most legendary album. It was recorded in 1966 and 1967 but only saw a formal release in 2011. That's a long time to wait for what was said to be Brian Wilson's masterpiece."
Henry Rollins
"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."
Henry Rollins
"While I have no empirical evidence to back this up, I bet that the number of homosexual people per thousand has not fluctuated all that much over the centuries. I do not believe the dented wisdom my father used to extol, that homosexuality was a sure sign of a civilization in decline."
Henry Rollins
"I don't hate the government. I don't think the Second Amendment is being infringed upon."
Henry Rollins
"With any advent in technology, any technological innovation, there is the good and the bad."
Henry Rollins
"The history of apartheid-era South Africa is incredibly sad and at times infuriatingly incomprehensible."
Henry Rollins
"War is very sad and small life is pathetically fragile at times."
Henry Rollins
"August used to be a sad month for me. As the days went on, the thought of school starting weighed heavily upon my young frame. That, coupled with the oppressive heat and humidity of my native Washington, D. C., only seemed to heighten the misery."
Henry Rollins
"There is not one single police officer in America that I am not afraid of and not one that I would trust to tell the truth or obey the laws they are sworn to uphold. I do not believe they protect me in any way."
Henry Rollins
"I think marriage is a boring and fault-ridden contractual obligation."
Henry Rollins
"Of course same sex marriage is constitutional! The right to be yourself, to pursue life, liberty, and property, is protected several ways over several amendments. John Boehner should know this."
Henry Rollins
"Jazz music is as American as it gets, and so is the U. S. Postal Service. A Miles Davis stamp is a perfect marriage of two great American institutions."
Henry Rollins
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