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It'll destroy you if you try to make it mean anything to anyone but yourself.

Henry Rollins

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Henry Rollins
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: February 13
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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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One person's roar is another's whine, just as one person's music is another's unendurable noise.
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I'm a liar. I'll rip your mind up. I'll burn your soul, I'll turn you in to me.
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Amy Winehouse was not a person I ever met, and I can't say that I am overly conversant in all of her music. I do have her albums, and years ago, when I first heard her sing, I thought she was extraordinary. The tone of her voice, her phrasing, her raw appearance - these qualities were extremely captivating to me.
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This is my 25th year of being on stage. A lot of people who I kind of toed up to the starting line with are no longer in this position. I feel very, very lucky.
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The Bad Seeds are a band I will travel a great distance to see whenever possible.
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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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Desperation is the secret to my steady employment. I am not interested in downtime. I really like to keep working all the time and I always feel like I'm in the mail room of life working up.
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Music, to me, is mankind's greatest possible achievement because look at all the good it does.
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Too sick and freaked out not to want a bullet for every passer by, too sick and freaked out to breathe, too sick and freaked out to care, too sick and freaked out to think of anything but the annihilation of my mind and denial of my life. So sick and freaked out that I think everyone is my friend.
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Rock is ironic in that, up to a certain point, you can get better and better at it if you don't mind possibly looking more and more ridiculous.
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Technically speaking, there is no music whatsoever on a CD. Lots of information, but no music.
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Texas is as odd as it is vast.
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I would like to become a better photographer. I'm working on that.
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For many years, my favorite director has been the Japanese giant Akira Kurosawa.
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You might as well enjoy the day - you never know when and how painfully it could all end.
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No magic. I do believe you might have taken it all with you when you went away.
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I don't have talent. I have tenacity.
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If I had to live my life in anticipation of what others thought of me, little would get done.
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