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Books are cool, but knowledge without mileage doesn't mean anything to me.

Henry Rollins

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Henry Rollins
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: February 13
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I simply cannot understand how any parent could kill themselves.
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Keep me preoccupied Keep me busy, busy, busy So I won't have to think I don't want to think Because it only brings me pain I just keep running away from My problems Keep me busy Give me a million things to do So I can keep running away from myself.
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Every year, August lashes out in volcanic fury, rising with the din of morning traffic, its great metallic wings smashing against the ground, heating the air with ever-increasing intensity.
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America's foreign policy lacks the backbone to do the right thing in Afghanistan - which is leave.
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I have no desire to write anything for screen. That's a great talent.
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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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I wonder what it's like to be from a state that is spread across a few islands way out in the Pacific Ocean, only added to the United States in 1959. Not only that but to be the birthplace of America's first black president? Pretty cool, I bet.
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The world’s a better place since I chose music. I like the physical aspect of it, the volume and the intensity of it. It’s loud and hard. I like all that because inside me I feel like screaming.
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The fact is, in the minds of many, Trayvon Martin received the appropriate punishment for a true crime: He was black, male and dared to walk outside. In life, young Trayvon was just a teenager in death, he has been transformed into a scary, lurking, suspicious, prone-to-violence spook.
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You know, we are one nation under a god. Yes, you were right. An angry, crack slinging god who decorates with bullets and spent condoms.
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If you think about it, every single species is endangered. Homo sapiens at the front of the line, mosquitoes and lawyers at the back.
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Anywhere you hang yourself is home.
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A man came up to me the other day and said he hadn't had a bite in weeks. So you know what I did? I walked by him like he didn't even exist.
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I have built my life to pursue the new. I don't have family, don't know many people and I am usually ready to leave within an hour.
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The easy solution isn't the solution, it's the problem.
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