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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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Henry Rollins
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: February 13
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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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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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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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I will do my best to dodge tonight's depression Hide in sleep Damage myself in dreams Wake up older, slightly more used.
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I'm of the opinion that the Democrats have the ideas I agree with more often than not. Reenergizing the middle class and giving people a break.
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Cynicism is only intellectual sloth.
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Respect is not a one way street
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With a book, there's no volume to turn up. You're very naked with a book.
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Don't go to summer camp. Bury your parents in the backyard and have the place to yourself.
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I live my life through the prism of capitalism and physiological limits and eventualities.
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Travelling as extensively as I do... the take away for me has made me very humble and very sympathetic to other people's plight in the world and very desirous of being proactive in being part of a solution somehow and not part of a problem. It's made me very patient and very grateful for where I live.
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Smart people make good choices. They dig science and say 'no' to the invasion of sovereign nations for the pleasure of corporations.
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Russia is tough. The history, the land, the people - brutal.
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I'm not interested in censorship. I like the First Amendment very much.
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It's so painful to be next to someone you feel strongly about and know you can't say the things you want to.
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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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I work pretty much every day. I can't really separate it from life, so I guess the work is my life.
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I contribute a large amount of money to the Southern Poverty Law Center, so I'm on their mailing list for all their Klan Watch newsletters. I'm very well aware of White Power movements in America.
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I am a veteran of the War on Christmas. I am just emerging from a battlefield strewn with dead trees and torn shreds of brightly colored wrapping paper.
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I always found the Chicago audience to be a smart, fast-moving, violent and cheerful lot, and it's always good to be back.
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