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I didn't want to work at Pizza Hut and I didn't want to join the Army. So I just decided to go out and be awesome.

Henry Rollins

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Henry Rollins
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: February 13
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The perpetrators of the actual bad stuff that does real and lasting harm to people, like leakage of industrial chemicals into water systems, seem to get not so much as a second glance the bloviation from media pundits and think tanks creates false problems that waste time and energy debunking.
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If you paid Americans a living wage, they would be able to pay for products made by Americans in America.
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If I'm in L.A. for longer than 20 days, I'm looking for work, because I don't do vacations.
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I think that Goldman Sachs and the Pentagon determine more of America's outcome then any president or any congress, that sounds a bit cynical, but I think I am right.
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You can still function as a living ruin.
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The average is the borderline that keeps mere men in their place. Those who step over the line are heroes by the very act. Go.
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If the Constitution was a movie, the Preamble would be the trailer, the First Amendment the establishing shot, the 13th the crowd pleaser and the 14th the ultimate hero scene.
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I take the work seriously, just not myself in it.
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There is a lot to say about what Bikini Kill and other 'riot grrrl' bands were able to achieve when they first set out. They were not some momentary, convulsive, creative spasm of independent music. There was a very real, relevant point of view being expressed.
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Don't push me I've got a corner at my back I've nowhere to go except over you.
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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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All I can do is just do stuff while I am alive and hopefully that track record will speak for itself.
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I love being a storyteller. I love telling stories.
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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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Everything you do makes my body scream with loneliness.
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I want my fellow citizens to wise up and stop falling for [war]. I try with my limited access, I'm not getting into Kabul with a camera, they're not letting me get into Benghazi with a camera. I do what I can with my flimsy American passport and a visa. The photos are a bit more heavy from Southern Sudan and Haiti and Cuba.
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I really enjoy the lattitude I have with being a private citizen. I can get a lot done. I am good with that.
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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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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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