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I just want to be able to stand up straight for a little while before I get cut down.

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Henry Rollins
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: February 13
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The blues is losing someone you love and not having enough money to immerse yourself in drink.
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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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In blues music, there's a lot of borrowing, so it's often difficult to identify the originator of a song.
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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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To me, the real 'state of the union' is found in how Americans react to current events.
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We occupy the planet with a vengeance. We seek to dominate it.
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I think self-reliance and self-responsibility and self-accountability will help you as a parent, a teacher, as a citizen as a friend.
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If it's a man's world, as they say, then men, your world is a poorly run carnage fest.
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I don't mind bees and think we are all the better for having them around. I like the taste of honey.
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I have always thought that change you can see and feel is best.
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We city dwellers, we residents of Los Angeles and the surrounding areas, are for the most part urbanized to some extent. We know deadlines, start times and traffic.
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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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I like the idea of someone else’s love safely sealed in a song or a book.
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And I laugh at myself when I screw things up, which happens all the time.
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The more you own, the more it owns you.
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I simply cannot understand how any parent could kill themselves.
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I don't wish to be anything more or less than what I am. If this is how it is, then so be it.
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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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I forged myself out of a vacuum. I crawl along the highway on hacked off stumps year after year. Some wonder how and why. I never do.
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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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