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The best revenge is to always survive yourself.

Henry Rollins

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Henry Rollins
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: February 13
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When people hold you in high esteem, it's very delicate relationship. When they meet you they're putting all their chips up. It's make or break.
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For the last 30-plus years, I have been doing one long, uninterrupted improv.
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Could it be that violence is as much a part of the American identity as the Constitution, and a vital component to its economic stability?
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That's the only interaction I have with people, those talking shows. Most of the people in my phone book are artists, management, producers, engineers. I don't ever call people with, Hi! How are you? I say, How are you? Do you have that 16/30 ready? When do you want me to come into the studio? That's what I do.
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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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My desires are foolish. The things I want are better kept to myself. The hand of silence is steady. The hard blade of silence is clean like night. The code is absolute. Silence is eternal and patient. Silence never makes a fool of itself like I have so many times.
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I've made some great mistakes in my life, but, you know, they were honest mistakes.
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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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I'd defend myself. But I don't go around shoving people around that's not me at all - that's for a cop. I'm not into that type of behavior at all.
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I have been an XL fan of Devo since I was in high school in the 1970s. Their records only sound better with time.
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I'd like to talk to Sean Hannity in a controlled environment and say, 'O.K., you can't interrupt and jump up and down like a professional wrestler.'
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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 would like go to Palestine and interview people there about what their lives are like same thing in Iran.
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After... The seas have dried out The trains have come to a shrieking holt The hounds of the abyss cease to howl The prisons have closed their doors The pigs have no one to arrest except themselves The drugs no longer have an effect When it's all over All I'll remember is you
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My father did not rock. He just earned and hated. Don't end up like this man.
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