I'm always looking upwards and looking forwards and so when someone says, "Hey, would you consider a TV show?" I say, "Hell yeah, I'll consider that. I'll check that out." Henry Rollins More Quotes by Henry Rollins More Quotes From Henry Rollins When you're very young, images that you upload into your very young mind tend to stay with you. Henry Rollins young-minds young mind I've never been in a situation where I had to run for my life, but I've been bitten by a lot of poisonous snakes where it was fairly painful. Pythons of size have a lot of teeth in that mouth, it's a painful bite and those wounds get infected fairly easily. I've got snake wounds from these animals that have lasted quite a while where it'll ache for several days. Having said that, I've been lucky; it's not like I'm looking for trouble with these animals either. It's not an envelope I'm willing to push. Henry Rollins python running animal Quite often governments are one way and the people are another. Henry Rollins government people way I live my life by the numbers. Not only am I an American, I am an Americanist. Henry Rollins i-live-my-life living-my-life numbers I just work, to the exclusion of most other things. I rarely work in a frenzied manner, just kind of - if you take the beater that whips the icing or the eggs into shape - on the upper end of medium speed, that's kind of how I am about seven days a week. Henry Rollins icing eggs shapes I'm just shallow and self-interested, and don't get out much because I'm afraid of real commitments. Henry Rollins real self commitment I am very ambitious in a way, in that I'm not trying to be the richest guy or whatever. I just really like my work. Henry Rollins ambitious guy trying I'd rather work on my radio show, which no one hears but I put about eight hours of programming and writing into it for those 30 people who do tune in. Henry Rollins eight writing people I don't have a wife, I don't have any kids, I don't have any addictions that keep me drooling on the couch, and I'm kind of target oriented. Henry Rollins addiction wife kids I don't have many friends so the phone doesn't ring and no one's asking me to go out and go dancing with them. Henry Rollins phones dancing asking I am primarily a loner. I don't go to clubs. I don't hang out with people. I don't know many people. It's just the way it ended up. It's not a sob story; it's fine for me. Henry Rollins loner stories people I'm not a conservative or a republican but I know that there's conservative republicans who I probably vigorously disagree with but I also am smart enough, or something enough, to understand that they really think that they're right, and they're looking at me like I'm crazy. Henry Rollins smart crazy thinking I'm usually busy - if you call me at the house, I get about four phone calls there a year - I'm usually running around the house with a pen in my mouth holding onto something, folding it, or doing something to it, and it's always a bad time. Henry Rollins phones running years I don't really have any women in my life, actually those two - the women in my life are two married women who work at my office. Henry Rollins married office two All I can do is just do stuff while I am alive and hopefully that track record will speak for itself. Henry Rollins records track alive I would like to get out to the region in the Caspian sea. I would like to go there. I would like to get to Darfur. I would like to get to Khartoum in Northern Sudan. I would like to get to Zimbabwe. I would like to go back to North Korea, if I could. I would like to go to Yemen. I would like to get to Kashmir. Most of those destinations I will get to. Henry Rollins zimbabwe korea sea While I disagree with our presence in Iraq and Afghanistan, I have nothing but respect and admiration for the men and women deployed in these places. Henry Rollins admiration iraq men All of the things that the bible warns you of being: jealous, covetous, murderous, selfish, etc., that's kind of how humans are. Henry Rollins etc jealous selfish What I'm saying is America has a job deficit because hundreds of thousands of jobs went elsewhere. Not because [Barack] Obama raised your taxes. He, in fact, lowered them. They are lower. Henry Rollins jobs america facts I don't have any spiritual anything.You shoot a guy with a gun, he dies. You step on a bug, the bug dies. There is no heaven for me and no hell. And certainly not any Karma. Henry Rollins karma gun spiritual
