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Consumerism is at once the engine of America and simultaneously one of the most revealing indicators of our collective shallowness.


Henry Rollins

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Veiled in darkness, secret bitterness an...
HENRY ROLLINS I would like to be able to gently drift in and out of existence when I wanted to.
HENRY ROLLINS You can find me in the frozen mood section.
HENRY ROLLINS If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light. If I lose paper an...
HENRY ROLLINS Girls aren't beautiful, they're pretty. Beautiful is too heavy a word to assign to a girl. Women are...
HENRY ROLLINS My main goal is to stay alive. To keep fooling myself into hanging around. To keep getting up every ...
HENRY ROLLINS The first Van Halen album makes Johnny Rotten out to be what he really was and still is: a hairdress...
HENRY ROLLINS Barack Obama's administration responded to the Haitian crisis within 24 hours. Here comes the so...
HENRY ROLLINS Nothing Brings People together more, then mutual hatred
HENRY ROLLINS I have always maintained that Iggy Pop is the Heavyweight Champion of Rock & Roll.
HENRY ROLLINS They say true love only comes around once and you have to hold out and be strong until then. I have ...
HENRY ROLLINS If you think about it, every single species is endangered. Homo sapiens at the front of the line, mo...
HENRY ROLLINS We are misery-making machines! Homo sapiens has perfected the art of causing suffering. Pain is huma...
HENRY ROLLINS Michele Bachmann is always a great person to go to for an opinion about anything. She has a very act...
HENRY ROLLINS I believe that today more than ever a book should be sought after even if it has only one great page...
HENRY ROLLINS It's easy for me to play bad guys because it's a very linear acting. Bad guys aren't emp...
HENRY ROLLINS If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light. If I lose paper an...
HENRY ROLLINS There's no such thing as an ex-junkie.
HENRY ROLLINS 'Duck Dynasty' is a ridiculous show, and long may it wave. America and democracy will endure...
HENRY ROLLINS Life is full of choices, if you have the guts to go for it. That's why I get immediately bored with ...
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