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I live my life by the numbers. Not only am I an American, I am an Americanist.

Henry Rollins

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Henry Rollins
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: February 13
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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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I have come to the conclusion that it's a waste of time to have too much pride in anything. Perhaps it's good to have a sense of duty, a jealous zeal to protect or improve, but pride ultimately is only that which stands vulnerable to offense and degradation.
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Youth is fleeting and life is short, you might as well strike hard. Anything else is just average.
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I live my life through the prism of capitalism and physiological limits and eventualities.
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Adolescence is a plague on the senses.
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As a young person growing up in Washington, D.C., summers were hot, humid and relentless. My friends and I grew more restless and adventurous with every passing year.
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If an American company has a drop of patriotic blood coursing through its system, then surely it would set up in America and employ Americans, right?
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August brings into sharp focus and a furious boil everything I've been listening to in the late spring and summer.
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When I was a kid looking at pictures of the Sphynx, and the Pyramids, and different tribes in Africa, all of that stuck with me, and I always wanted to see those things and meet those people.
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I'm not trying to amass people in the streets. I just want them to be more aware.
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I try to get myself up and moving as early as possible. Optimum is to be on the treadmill while it is still dark outside.
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Americans have been dumbed down to the point where more people watching 'American Idol' than listen to the state of the union address. And that's too bad. I'm not trying to take any bread out of the mouth of Simon Cowell, but if the president is speaking to the people of the United States, and people are going to watch 'American Idol,' that's sad.
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I don't really think about the audience much. I think of myself. Let me dig myself out of that one.
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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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If I had to live my life in anticipation of what others thought of me, little would get done.
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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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I don't mind The Boss. I think he's an honest guy. I have some of his records, not all of them. I've met a couple of the E-Street guys, and they seem really cool.
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