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Here in this moment we are beautiful, nocturnal creatures and our thoughts and words are jewels guarded by the moon.

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Henry Rollins
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: February 13
Actor
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Human Rights Activist
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Peace Activist
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But I have a good life. I enjoy what I do. I am married to work.
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I'm not exactly ambitious as much as I have a very good realization of what I am and what I am capable of.
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Let's pretend my career in music is a bell. Whether you like my music or not is up to you. But you've got to admit I rang that bell pretty hard and pretty often.
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The times I have tried to get close to someone resulted in me feeling threatened and weak.
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Now you see how you are, the wisdom mixed in with all the scars.
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I'm most in my element on tour, with a gig that day, like today. I'm on the road where I am supposed to be. I will be where I'm supposed to be at nighttime, on stage, in front of people, doing my thing.
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The lowest stress environment is the radio show. I am not on camera and I can let the music do the talking. The rest is more highly pressurized or in the case of writing, time intensive task. I say yes to all of it and like all of it but the radio show, by nature of what it is, is the least hassle.
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I see violence in myself I've done some pretty violent things in my lifetime and I've been around some pretty severe violence all the way up to homicide.
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The opportunity to write for the 'L.A. Weekly' has been one of the better breaks that has come my way in a long time.
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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 love to go on stage and sing.
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I like it better that people aren't throwing stuff at my face and trying to fight me on stage. Like in the '80s, it was just aggravating all the time... I have scars from cigars and cigarettes on me, Bic pens, burns from cigarette lighters, all that.
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There is no way you are going to be forgiven for blowing up a village and killing a bunch of people.
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The streets lie, the sidewalks lie, everything lies You can try and read it but you're gonna get it wrong...all wrong The summer evenings burn and melt and the nights glitter but you're gonna get it wrong And it's gonna sink its teeth into your flesh and pull you to the bottom.
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Everything you do makes my body scream with loneliness.
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Anywhere you hang yourself is home.
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My desires are foolish. The things I want are better kept to myself. The hand of silence is steady. The hard blade of silence is clean like night. The code is absolute. Silence is eternal and patient. Silence never makes a fool of itself like I have so many times.
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It is instilled in thousands of American males from an early age that one of their requirements is to be able to both dish out and take a lot of pain. They are taught the rules of this road in gyms, rings, backyards and fields all over America.
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I got three letters today telling me that I'm god. Why can't I pay the rent?
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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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