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

Henry Rollins

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Henry Rollins
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: February 13
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Every summer, around late July and into August, I find myself in Europe, performing at any festival that will have me.
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Miles Davis would have this lineup of all these amazing musicians and one day would just say, 'We're done.' After tons of great records and tickets sold, he said, 'Now I'm going to grow my hair out and play my horn through a wah-wah pedal.' Rather than play it safe, he went on.
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While I have no empirical evidence to back this up, I bet that the number of homosexual people per thousand has not fluctuated all that much over the centuries. I do not believe the dented wisdom my father used to extol, that homosexuality was a sure sign of a civilization in decline.
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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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There is no place in the world like Australia. Not even its beautiful neighbor New Zealand.
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I don't want to fail the audience. I don't want to let them down.
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The only difference between me and others is that they think they can change something with cute little poems, nice cards or embracing trees and being nice to little lapdogs.
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In the worst of times the best among us never lose their moral compass, and that is how they emerge relatively unscathed.
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I can die anytime I want. I wish I could do the same with life.
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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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I love to go on stage and sing.
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I know that collector types can be a pain in the neck and seem perpetually frozen in time - or at least in their parents' basement - but someone has to look out for the past, lest it slip away forever.
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Like a lot of inwardly drawn young people, I spent a lot of time in libraries. At my high school, I often spent my lunch breaks there.
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I want to learn more about the world. It makes me want to get up and go.
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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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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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Now you see how you are, the wisdom mixed in with all the scars.
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It's difficult for me to be around anyone for longer than an hour. Love, death, elation, sorrow, I just don't care all that much about any of it. I am at this point, more of an observer/journalist.
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Don't do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul.
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