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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
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I think I am the most impressed with writing styles that defy category, like Kharms or Selby, Breton or Jarry, where you become as interested in the writer as much as the writing itself. It's all these things that make reading so appealing to me.
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Entertainment's hard on the ego. I see why actors are so psycho now. Because there's so much 'we don't want you' going on in acting. Even big people get rejected but the smaller people - they really get rejected. Trust me - I know.
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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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Through the years, I have combined meditation, action, and the Iron into a single strength. I believe that when the body is strong, the mind thinks strong thoughts. Time spent away from the Iron makes my mind degenerate. I wallow in a thick depression. My body shuts down my mind.
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Music files and downloading have indeed changed the currency of music to a great degree.
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Now, if someone wants to spit on me, I just roll up the window of my BMW 540i.
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The Ninja, as you know, operates by stealth. And so, case in point: I put out records... no one hears them! I make videos... (whispers) no one sees! I go on tour.... (whispers) no one knows! NINJA! I was never here!
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I'm terrified of motorcycles. I've been on one a couple of times. I did not like it.
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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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George Zimmerman is a foot soldier in a rapidly privatizing country. He is a new centurion of 21st-century America. Law enforcement is tied down by the strictures of, well, the law. There is only 'so much they can do' to take care of the 'problem.'
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I can die anytime I want. I wish I could do the same with life.
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From those who agonize that they may no longer be able to write off their private jet to someone who doesn't feel like making the three mile hike to the well to get water and carry it back, everyone struggles.
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For many years, my favorite director has been the Japanese giant Akira Kurosawa.
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Most of the people who call me a sellout were 7 when I was down face-first in the punk trenches.
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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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Canadians are often a friendly bunch.
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I live my life through the prism of capitalism and physiological limits and eventualities.
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Do it or don't. It's amazing how many things in life are that easy.
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Everyone should have the right to go off and do their music or do their books. The people who are in the position to censor they're really not down to reality where that certain artists are coming from.
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If I hear, 'Be afraid of Tehran,' I'm like, 'I'd better go to Tehran.'
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