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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.

Henry Rollins

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Henry Rollins
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: February 13
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was vigorously and vociferously opposed by the Southern states. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed it into law nonetheless.
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You never have to listen to a famous person, it's an elective.
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The fact is, in the minds of many, Trayvon Martin received the appropriate punishment for a true crime: He was black, male and dared to walk outside. In life, young Trayvon was just a teenager in death, he has been transformed into a scary, lurking, suspicious, prone-to-violence spook.
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I lay off a lot modern fiction and only rely on living writers for non-fiction work.
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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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