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I'd rather work on my radio show, which no one hears but I put about eight hours of programming and writing into it for those 30 people who do tune in.

Henry Rollins

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Henry Rollins
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: February 13
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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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Every summer, around late July and into August, I find myself in Europe, performing at any festival that will have me.
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I think to write fiction, this is just how I see it, you have to have a powerful need/desire to connect. I can't. Wanting to and not being able to has lead to a lot of misery in my life.
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Every single record I have is a fossil.
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When you see the Escalades and the Hummers driving down the street, at least in Los Angeles, this dry, flat desert with shopping malls, when you see someone driving one of those through this you're like, 'You are definitely part of the problem.'
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All by yourself, unable to express the pain of your distress with your deeper inside. You alienate yourself and everybody else.
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I know you’ll never love me but maybe you’ll stay for awhile.
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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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Do you know why Albert Camus was so prolific? He wrote to keep from screaming.
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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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We city dwellers, we residents of Los Angeles and the surrounding areas, are for the most part urbanized to some extent. We know deadlines, start times and traffic.
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I forged myself out of a vacuum. I crawl along the highway on hacked off stumps year after year. Some wonder how and why. I never do.
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I never think of what it's going to be like later. I only think in the present tense. The only time I think backwards is when I have to reissue something.
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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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I don't mind bees and think we are all the better for having them around. I like the taste of honey.
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I have always thought that change you can see and feel is best.
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I wonder what it's like to be from a state that is spread across a few islands way out in the Pacific Ocean, only added to the United States in 1959. Not only that but to be the birthplace of America's first black president? Pretty cool, I bet.
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It has been hard to get my head around how Justice Antonin Scalia rationalizes his decisions. His body blow to the Voting Rights Act was a head scratcher, but at least he was calm when he attempted to justify his odd logic.
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