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Being unique is never easy, and often, by the time culture catches up with you, there are only a few people who notice.

Henry Rollins

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Henry Rollins
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: February 13
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While I have not ruled out the possibility of doing music, what I don't want to do is go onstage and perform old songs. I do, all the time, but I don't think it is artistically brave.
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My understanding of first-degree murder is that premeditation needs to be proven.
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I get a lot of shit because I put I in the lyrics all the time. The I is always for someone else... When I say I, it's so that when that person is singing along with the song, it empowers them.
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My whole access into culture was violent. Violence is something I understand. Don't like it, don't condone it, but I sure understand where it comes from.
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I don't need to have my convictions confirmed by a show of numbers. However, being among people in front of a band leads me to believe that all is not lost, that humans, now and then, can communicate on a higher level than the political and the practical.
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You never have to listen to a famous person, it's an elective.
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Your commander would never lie to you. That's the vice president's job.
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As far as what people think of me, maybe my stuff should just be put online for free downloads when I'm gone.
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The opportunity to write for the 'L.A. Weekly' has been one of the better breaks that has come my way in a long time.
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I beg young people to travel.
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A rose trapped inside a fist.
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I have never experienced anything like walking out onto the stage of an oversold venue and, before the first note is struck, realizing that there is not going to be enough oxygen for all of us.
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In my world there would be as many public libraries as there are Starbucks.
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I like boring black and white films with subtitles. I'm basically a drip.
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Young, gay and stuck in Arkansas? Sounds like a horror flick.
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Contemporary bands often will do tour-only releases pressed and sold only in Australia. Crikey!
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If American forces leave Afghanistan, the Taliban is going to do what to America? Don't say you're worried about what they will do to the Afghan people. If that was America's concern, America's operational presence there would be much different.
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If I hear, 'Be afraid of Tehran,' I'm like, 'I'd better go to Tehran.'
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I wonder if it is Australia's great distance from more populated land masses that allows its inhabitants to be left to their own devices, to be incredibly creative and, at times, to be wonderfully weird.
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I just work, to the exclusion of most other things. I rarely work in a frenzied manner, just kind of - if you take the beater that whips the icing or the eggs into shape - on the upper end of medium speed, that's kind of how I am about seven days a week.
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