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Having an identity is one thing. Being born into an identity is quite a different matter.

Henry Rollins

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Henry Rollins
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: February 13
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If there is one set of laws, one Constitution for every citizen, its protections hopefully applied equally to all, then why do the results seem to differ so radically? What do you call that? Look around - you're living in it.
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I am a pretty crazy person, so it's best for me to be on my own most of the time.
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I was never told to Get up, get out there, get a job. It was never a thing either parent ever said I had to do. It was what I wanted to do. I think I was very interested in being away from them as much as possible. Employment was great for that.
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I take the work seriously, just not myself in it.
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There's no rule that you have to like Henry Rollins the musician or the actor.
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And I laugh at myself when I screw things up, which happens all the time.
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We Americans look funny when we're in France because we don't travel, we are fairly un-cultured whereas Europeans go to Africa all the time because it's right there.
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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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I am a white guy in America with an education, albeit high school, but a pretty good one. Another guy from a different demographic or different ethnicity in America can look at me and say, You take a lot for granted. Well... okay. I just live in a white male American reality, where I hear you but I don't know if I necessarily read you.
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I think that America certainly has racism, I think that any industrialized country does. But when you see how many million fans Barack Obama has who are not black, it would lead one to the conclusion that millions of Americans are in fact not burdened by the albatross of racism.
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I've never killed anybody... but I've definitely thought about it.
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For me, music was an age/time/place thing. One day I woke up and realized I was done. That was many years ago.
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Pride is a thing that I have tried to abandon completely. Try as I might, pride still creeps into many of the things I do.
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Here in this moment we are beautiful, nocturnal creatures and our thoughts and words are jewels guarded by the moon.
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If some band sucks, you're going to have to find out about it for yourself, because I don't have the interest in issuing warnings.
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I was a very repressed young person. I wasn't good at school. I didn't fit in.
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I do think that Americans are poorly served by their media, at times extremely poorly served by their elected officials who are non responsive to majority feelings and cut off to a certain degree from the affairs of the world.
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When you're very young, images that you upload into your very young mind tend to stay with you.
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It is amazing to hear grown-up people rationalize homophobia and discrimination. The lengths they go to trying to prove their points take reason to its breaking point.
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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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