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If the truth is told how I want to be remembered... as someone who cared. Someone who worked really hard and someone who didn't sit around.

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Henry Rollins
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: February 13
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I think hip-hop has definitely brought the black experience to white kids more than the civil rights movement did and more than any teacher's well-intentioned lecture on Martin Luther King did.
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Is it a shame that I can’t accept love? Am I too burned out to move towards what will keep me alive or too smart to get pulled into someone else’s world?
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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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While I have no empirical evidence to back this up, I bet that the number of homosexual people per thousand has not fluctuated all that much over the centuries. I do not believe the dented wisdom my father used to extol, that homosexuality was a sure sign of a civilization in decline.
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Having an identity is one thing. Being born into an identity is quite a different matter.
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The Bad Seeds are a band I will travel a great distance to see whenever possible.
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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 don't really write for fun it's not an enjoyable experience. For me, art, or whatever the hell it is I do, has always been a refuge from that which makes me want to tear my lungs out. That's why I play like I play I'm not into entertainment.
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Half of life is up - the other half is dealing with it.
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In blues music, there's a lot of borrowing, so it's often difficult to identify the originator of a song.
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I'm not harmful, just introspective. You can probably think I'm weird, but it's not harmful weird.
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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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To me, the real 'state of the union' is found in how Americans react to current events.
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I don't have a crystal ball, but I'm willing to bet one of my arms right now that as long as there's electricity, Ramones music is going to be relevant.
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You have to get away from them. You have to get as far away as you can otherwise they'll kill you with their lives. They don't know what they do. They are careless with themselves and they take too much for granted. They make their shortcomings your problem. The only way to keep your head above it and heal your wounds is to crawl away.
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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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There are religions and social and moral awareness in any society that gets passed immediately. Those human truths. All cultures address them.
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While they flail about, you will remain calm in the knowledge that you possess strength from within.
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I thought I was gonna be in the minimum-wage working world all my life.
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If it were a choice between me getting killed or one of my friend's kids, I would happily take the shot.
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