"My first visit to West Berlin was in……" — Henry Rollins
"My first visit to West Berlin was in February 1983. The drive through East Berlin, the fact that West Berlin was surrounded by a wall that was more than 100 miles long - the absurdity and intensity of it really knocked me out."
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476 Quotes by Henry Rollins
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It wasn't until my late twenties that I learned that by working out I had given myself a great gift.…
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Through the years, I have combined meditation, action, and the Iron into a single strength. I believe that when the…
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Am I self-righteous? Why not? It's not like I can count on you to be righteous for me.
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I want a soul mate who can sit me down, shut me up, tell me ten things I don't already…
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People have become separated from their bodies. They are no longer whole. I see them move from their offices to…
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Don't do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul.
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The Ninja, as you know, operates by stealth. And so, case in point: I put out records... no one hears…
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I got three letters today telling me that I'm god. Why can't I pay the rent?
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Cynicism is only intellectual sloth.
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Sitting in a room, alone, listening to a CD is to be lonely. Sitting in a room alone with an…
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It is just that I don't want a wife and I don't want kids.
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When was the last time you wanted to say it all to the right person To have it all come…
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An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of…
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This Old Testament - containing error, folly, absurdity and immorality - is by English statute law declared to be of…
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Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
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My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out…
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At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.
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Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe…
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It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we…
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Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things because to demystify supposedly 'holy text dictated by god' and…
— Christopher Hitchens
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The vested interests-if we explain the situation by their influence-can only get the public to act as they wish by…
— Norman Angell
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When a man has once brought himself to accept uncritically all the absurdities that religious doctrines put before him and…
— Sigmund Freud
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Among the sayings and discourses imputed to him (i.e. Jesus) by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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