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I don't want to fail the audience. I don't want to let them down.

Henry Rollins

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Henry Rollins
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: February 13
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What I've found is that a lot of soldiers are surprisingly apolitical. Their reality is, Today I'm going to leave the gate for twelve hours, and I'm going to make it back to the dining facility by sundown with the arms and legs of me and my buddies intact.
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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.
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August brings into sharp focus and a furious boil everything I've been listening to in the late spring and summer.
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It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.
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Americans should demand real news, more transparency and more truth.
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If I hear, 'Be afraid of Tehran,' I'm like, 'I'd better go to Tehran.'
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I don't really write for fun it's not an enjoyable experience. For me, art, or whatever the hell it is I do, has always been a refuge from that which makes me want to tear my lungs out. That's why I play like I play I'm not into entertainment.
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To me, the real 'state of the union' is found in how Americans react to current events.
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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.
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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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It'll destroy you if you try to make it mean anything to anyone but yourself.
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If I'm in L.A. for longer than 20 days, I'm looking for work, because I don't do vacations.
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If I could go to Kabul and not die, I would go back to Afghanistan as soon as I could. And, that was the most interesting place that I've been to.
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When you see the Escalades and the Hummers driving down the street, at least in Los Angeles, this dry, flat desert with shopping malls, when you see someone driving one of those through this you're like, 'You are definitely part of the problem.'
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There's always going to be a need for activism there's always going to be a need for you and me doing the right thing, being very Lincoln-sonian in looking out for each other.
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It is just that I don't want a wife and I don't want kids.
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If I had to live my life in anticipation of what others thought of me, little would get done.
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Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated.
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As far as I have been able to understand, the Japanese seem to keep things close to the vest. Friendly but remote and polite to the point of being invisible. It is in the music, literature, film and art that the Japanese really seem to express themselves.
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Certainly, there are huge, multiplatinum bands whose singers command their audience's attention. Sadly, much of the time they have little to say.
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