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I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention.

Henry Rollins

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Henry Rollins
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: February 13
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I have always thought that change you can see and feel is best.
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Do you know why Albert Camus was so prolific? He wrote to keep from screaming.
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Russia is tough. The history, the land, the people - brutal.
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You are the untold story. You are the impassioned truth wanting to scream its existence, to be forever trapped by a strong hand clapped firmly over the mouth of my soul.
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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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Florida is a crazy place, and I have played some of the wildest shows of my life here.
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Am I self-righteous? Why not? It's not like I can count on you to be righteous for me.
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What makes me uncomfortable about [Barack] Obama is what makes me uncomfortable about any young politician who has not yet been bloodied inside the Beltway.
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I have built my life to pursue the new. I don't have family, don't know many people and I am usually ready to leave within an hour.
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When you have to work with and exist amongst cynical, burned-out personnel on a set, it doesn't matter what you're shooting or how much you're being paid - it's not worth it.
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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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We're at peak oil, peak water, peak resources, and so either we figure it out and let science lead or we head down a very bad, dark trail to where a lot of people aren't going to make it.
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When you put yourself in environments that continually test you, that's where all the good stories come from. That's where the jokes come from is from the shitty parts.
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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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The scarcity of the music not only makes the music itself enjoyable but it also gives the collector a strange sense of superiority.
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I think hip-hop has definitely brought the black experience to white kids more than the civil rights movement did and more than any teacher's well-intentioned lecture on Martin Luther King did.
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