(Utley) still had enough to take the catcher out. That was the best part of it. He'll get down and dirty.


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Watching a documentary with people hacking their way through some polar wasteland is merely a visual...
HENRY ROLLINS
I think the worst and most insidious procrastination for me is research. I will be looking for some ...
JAMES ROLLINS
I am not immune to the lure of a signed record, flier or set list. The fact that your music heroes p...
HENRY ROLLINS
Airports in major cities, like LAX, are trippy environments. It is at once a national and internatio...
HENRY ROLLINS
Death metal uses a lot of white face paint and black hair dye to make its point. I quite enjoy this ...
HENRY ROLLINS
In my bright, utopian future world, they will hand out college educations like cups of water at the ...
HENRY ROLLINS
Songs sung under duress are often very powerful.
HENRY ROLLINS
Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.
HENRY ROLLINS
I'll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does.
HENRY ROLLINS
Try driving the streets of Los Angeles without seeing a billboard depicting a film with a lead actor...
HENRY ROLLINS
Most poets are elitist dregs more concerned with proving their skill with a dictionary than communic...
HENRY ROLLINS
I've got a good set of eyeballs on me, so I can spot talent.
SETH ROLLINS
The prison-industrial complex and the military-industrial complex are here with us and are multi-bil...
HENRY ROLLINS
The Shield had run its course as a three-man group, and we'll go down in history as one of the g...
SETH ROLLINS
With social media now, everybody's faceless, but I assume these kids sending me pictures of myse...
SETH ROLLINS
My first visit to West Berlin was in February 1983. The drive through East Berlin, the fact that Wes...
HENRY ROLLINS
For many, an album is no longer a considerable feat of an artist but just sounds to be half-listened...
HENRY ROLLINS
One of the odd enjoyments in life is to be alone in a room full of people. To have them there as unk...
HENRY ROLLINS
If the Constitution was a movie, the Preamble would be the trailer, the First Amendment the establis...
HENRY ROLLINS
One of the most insane environments I have ever spent time in is a gun range. There we are, all in a...
HENRY ROLLINS
I wasn't playing the music, the music was playing me... and once that went away, and I had the f...
HENRY ROLLINS
The GOP grows more and more unpopular with female voters seemingly every time one of its leaders get...
HENRY ROLLINS
I've made some great mistakes in my life, but, you know, they were honest mistakes.
HENRY ROLLINS
Fiction writing was in my blood from a very young age, but I never considered writing as a real care...
JAMES ROLLINS
I know I was a generic dysfunctional child, but I think a lot of people are.
HENRY ROLLINS
I urge you to read the Occupy Manifesto, written by the New York City General Assembly. It is unavoi...
HENRY ROLLINS
I mean I appreciate fan mail and that the people like what I am doing but I can't answer it. If ...
HENRY ROLLINS
I don't see myself in the ring as a high flyer or brawler or technical guy, but I feel I can do ...
SETH ROLLINS
When I think of Mick Jagger still singing that he can't get any satisfaction in over forty years...
HENRY ROLLINS
Even though I am not hungry when I get up, I try to eat to get me ready for the day. Within an hour ...
HENRY ROLLINS
'Fox News' will one day come to an end. Led Zeppelin will not. It's as simple as that.
HENRY ROLLINS
When a young non-white male is stopped and searched at the whim of a police officer, his idea of per...
HENRY ROLLINS
There was a period which I refer to as the 'Golden Age of Jazz,' which sort of encompasses t...
SONNY ROLLINS
I've always seen it as the role of an artist to drag his inside out, give the audience all you&#...
HENRY ROLLINS
I would hate to think that some people have found themselves in a musical cul-de-sac and have ceased...
HENRY ROLLINS
With age, life becomes complex and difficult, often fraught with risk on several levels, from the pr...
HENRY ROLLINS
We hope to offload a tanker sometime today. We wanted to offload a tanker yesterday afternoon but we...
DALE ROLLINS
Whenever any great song or album gets lost in the ether, someone is deprived of the joy of hearing i...
HENRY ROLLINS
Being in New York is an almost overwhelming experience. While Washington, D.C., is my favorite Ameri...
HENRY ROLLINS
When I see the hatred exacted at Mr. Obama - you know, he lowered your taxes, killed your number one...
HENRY ROLLINS
Voting is completely important. People in America think democracy is a given. I think of it as an ec...
HENRY ROLLINS
Intel's still our main partner. We have not announced anything with AMD and don't have anyth...
KEVIN ROLLINS
If I were a doctor, I would prescribe that you addict yourself deeply and irrevocably to music and n...
HENRY ROLLINS
It might take some here and there, but Apple's market share in the global computer business has ...
KEVIN ROLLINS
Like a lot of inwardly drawn young people, I spent a lot of time in libraries. At my high school, I ...
HENRY ROLLINS
August used to be a sad month for me. As the days went on, the thought of school starting weighed he...
HENRY ROLLINS
It's why real men just go out in the woods and howl. I must do it and get paid.
HENRY ROLLINS
I contribute a large amount of money to the Southern Poverty Law Center, so I'm on their mailing...
HENRY ROLLINS
Juan Williams is a very sharp guy.
HENRY ROLLINS
Citizens United didn't work. Hey, Koch brothers, Karl Rove, Shellgame Adelson: Democracy trumps ...
HENRY ROLLINS
You had many jazz musicians who lived in the United States, who had a hard time being accepted over ...
SONNY ROLLINS
I have always been a person who is concerned with the dignity of jazz music and the way jazz musicia...
SONNY ROLLINS
I've been on 'Jay Leno,' and everyone likes Jay, but being on that show is a really bori...
HENRY ROLLINS