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I take the work seriously, just not myself in it.

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Henry Rollins
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: February 13
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My whole access into culture was violent. Violence is something I understand. Don't like it, don't condone it, but I sure understand where it comes from.
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Rock is ironic in that, up to a certain point, you can get better and better at it if you don't mind possibly looking more and more ridiculous.
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I think I am the most impressed with writing styles that defy category, like Kharms or Selby, Breton or Jarry, where you become as interested in the writer as much as the writing itself. It's all these things that make reading so appealing to me.
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It is very difficult to tell Americans that they can't do something.
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I live my life through the prism of capitalism and physiological limits and eventualities.
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A lot of Americans don't have a passport, never will have a passport. Not only will they not travel, they don't want to travel.
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There's something about being under-rested and knowing that the situation is going to remain that way for quite some time that makes things more meaningful.
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When people make my country look bad, I can't stand it.
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Maybe I'm ego-tripping, but I don't find myself a particularly horrible person, so I don't think I need to hold back anything I think or feel.
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I beg young people to travel.
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I like the idea of someone else’s love safely sealed in a song or a book.
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I am an employment hyena. I am happy to make a meal of what the lions leave behind.
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My mother, a very eclectic listener, had the first Doors album and gave it to me when I expressed interest in the band. It was one of the first records I ever had. As the years passed, the babysitters who used to look after me would bring their Doors albums to the apartment, and that's how I got to hear their later work.
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What makes me uncomfortable about [Barack] Obama is what makes me uncomfortable about any young politician who has not yet been bloodied inside the Beltway.
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Human beings should not be reduced to a state to where they almost get into a fight over a small bar of soap.
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If an American company has a drop of patriotic blood coursing through its system, then surely it would set up in America and employ Americans, right?
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Miles Davis would have this lineup of all these amazing musicians and one day would just say, 'We're done.' After tons of great records and tickets sold, he said, 'Now I'm going to grow my hair out and play my horn through a wah-wah pedal.' Rather than play it safe, he went on.
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Michele Bachmann is always a great person to go to for an opinion about anything. She has a very active and interesting mind.
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If American forces leave Afghanistan, the Taliban is going to do what to America? Don't say you're worried about what they will do to the Afghan people. If that was America's concern, America's operational presence there would be much different.
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In the late summer of 1986, the band I had been in for five years stopped playing. Suddenly, I was on my own. This new state of bandlessness was, at first, traumatic. When your group breaks up, a lot of broken parts hit the ground.
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