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Girls aren't beautiful, they're pretty. Beautiful is too heavy a word to assign to a girl. Women are beautiful because their faces show that they know they have lost something and picked up something else.

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Henry Rollins
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: February 13
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Don't let despair mutate your flesh Look at my twisted stumps of thought See the fingers, listen to the voice I am slowly becoming the end of the line.
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I'm not a thrill seeker. I'm not looking to get kidnapped. I'm not looking to get a shot at. I've been shot at. I didn't like it.
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That's the only interaction I have with people, those talking shows. Most of the people in my phone book are artists, management, producers, engineers. I don't ever call people with, Hi! How are you? I say, How are you? Do you have that 16/30 ready? When do you want me to come into the studio? That's what I do.
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I have to do things for myself, and if those standards are set high, then it's up to me to pass or fail.
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I'm of the opinion that the Democrats have the ideas I agree with more often than not. Reenergizing the middle class and giving people a break.
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It'll destroy you if you try to make it mean anything to anyone but yourself.
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I will take the acting work when I can get it. I am not really an actor, that's always apparent but it's work and I'll take it and am always glad for it.
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I live my life by the numbers. Not only am I an American, I am an Americanist.
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I would like go to Palestine and interview people there about what their lives are like same thing in Iran.
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I don't really think about the audience much. I think of myself. Let me dig myself out of that one.
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