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If you really want a true confrontation, you treat your opponent with respect.

Henry Rollins

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Henry Rollins
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: February 13
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I think in rural settings, people have a different appreciation for animals than might the city dweller. In parts of India where poisonous snake bite is common, people have a much different value system. I live in a city. I'm not thinking about wolves, lions, etc.
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I've been in Iraq, and it never occurred to me to go, 'Hey, this war is bogus,' to some guy who's 24 hours a day trying not to get shot at or blown up.
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The public library system of the United States is worth preserving.
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Rarely do I do film press because I'm so low on the food chain of the movie, and for me it's just this thing I did for four weeks before the next tour started.
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Don’t think about it. Do it. Don’t talk about it. Do it.
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Russia is tough. The history, the land, the people - brutal.
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I get letters from young people telling me that they're broke and download my albums for free. They ask me what I think about that. I now have a standard line. I tell them, 'I would rather be heard than paid.'
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I was a very repressed young person. I wasn't good at school. I didn't fit in.
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I am very ambitious in a way, in that I'm not trying to be the richest guy or whatever. I just really like my work.
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Having an identity is one thing. Being born into an identity is quite a different matter.
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While I disagree with our presence in Iraq and Afghanistan, I have nothing but respect and admiration for the men and women deployed in these places.
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There's always going to be a need for activism there's always going to be a need for you and me doing the right thing, being very Lincoln-sonian in looking out for each other.
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Castle Face Records, run by The Oh Sees main man, Johnny Dwyer is always worth checking in with.
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I think we are in fact, losing free speech. We don't seem to care though. Many of us don't seem to notice. We will have to do a lot of work to bring back the American way to America.
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You can pass all the gun legislation you want. None of it will make me feel any more or less safe than I do right at this moment.
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You can't get your head around something if you're yelling.
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I got three letters today telling me that I'm god. Why can't I pay the rent?
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With any advent in technology, any technological innovation, there is the good and the bad.
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Don't let despair mutate your flesh Look at my twisted stumps of thought See the fingers, listen to the voice I am slowly becoming the end of the line.
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As far as what people think of me, maybe my stuff should just be put online for free downloads when I'm gone.
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