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When you title yourself, you immediately lend yourself to all kinds of pretension

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Henry Rollins
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: February 13
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The first Van Halen album makes Johnny Rotten out to be what he really was and still is: a hairdresser.
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Do it or don't. It's amazing how many things in life are that easy.
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What you do for yourself is one thing. What you do for others is something else entirely.
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I'm not harmful, just introspective. You can probably think I'm weird, but it's not harmful weird.
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I never think of what it's going to be like later. I only think in the present tense. The only time I think backwards is when I have to reissue something.
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I like boring black and white films with subtitles. I'm basically a drip.
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'SMiLE' is perhaps the Beach Boys' most legendary album. It was recorded in 1966 and 1967 but only saw a formal release in 2011. That's a long time to wait for what was said to be Brian Wilson's masterpiece.
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I'm always looking, people are always presenting and I have found that every year of my life there's been great bands. All over the world, all the time. So when someone goes, Music sucks now! I'll go, I don't think so. Not over at my house.
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The only safety is in the middle of total misunderstanding and deception.
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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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Just understand that the end began long ago We got here just in time Look All the squares in the sidewalks were already there All these strangers have more money than you do All the good riffs have been taken And everyone is so scared Murder is commonplace I don't even flinch at the gunshots outside my window I feel lonely without them
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I really enjoy the lattitude I have with being a private citizen. I can get a lot done. I am good with that.
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If there is one set of laws, one Constitution for every citizen, its protections hopefully applied equally to all, then why do the results seem to differ so radically? What do you call that? Look around - you're living in it.
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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.
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