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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.
Henry Rollins
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Henry Rollins
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: February 13
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One of the nice things about a favorite pop song is that it's an unconditional truce on judgment and musical snobbery. You like the song because you just do, and there need not be any further criticism.
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Hating someone is giving them too much, just leave them alone.
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I like the idea of someone else’s love safely sealed in a song or a book.
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The scars will take me far, they always do.
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Pizza makes me think that anything is possible.
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I see violence in myself I've done some pretty violent things in my lifetime and I've been around some pretty severe violence all the way up to homicide.
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Desperation is the secret to my steady employment. I am not interested in downtime. I really like to keep working all the time and I always feel like I'm in the mail room of life working up.
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I'm a big Germs fan most people are.
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As far as I have been able to understand, the Japanese seem to keep things close to the vest. Friendly but remote and polite to the point of being invisible. It is in the music, literature, film and art that the Japanese really seem to express themselves.
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Michele Bachmann is always a great person to go to for an opinion about anything. She has a very active and interesting mind.
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I just work, to the exclusion of most other things. I rarely work in a frenzied manner, just kind of - if you take the beater that whips the icing or the eggs into shape - on the upper end of medium speed, that's kind of how I am about seven days a week.
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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 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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After having read a lot of fiction, literature, whatever you want to call it, from Wolfe to Houellebecq, I think you have to have an understanding and insight of the human condition that is informed and motivated by a desire to immerse yourself in the human world and bring these stories to bear.
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Do you know why Albert Camus was so prolific? He wrote to keep from screaming.
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The Iron is the best antidepressant I have ever found.
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I believe in North, South, East, West, The seasons, life and death, geography. That which is provable, absolute and most of all, functional. I believe in things that can kill me.
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Russia is tough. The history, the land, the people - brutal.
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The first Van Halen album makes Johnny Rotten out to be what he really was and still is: a hairdresser.
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