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I travel because I want to know. Books and documentaries will only get you so far. If you want to know, you will have to go.

Henry Rollins

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Henry Rollins
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: February 13
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All of the things that the bible warns you of being: jealous, covetous, murderous, selfish, etc., that's kind of how humans are.
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For many years, my favorite director has been the Japanese giant Akira Kurosawa.
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The more you own, the more it owns you.
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Being unique is never easy, and often, by the time culture catches up with you, there are only a few people who notice.
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August brings into sharp focus and a furious boil everything I've been listening to in the late spring and summer.
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If you're crazy enough to put your hat into the ring of speculation and punditry, you're going to get some turbulence. But if it's coming from some journalist with a comfortable degree of body fat, I'm not losing any sleep over it.
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The kid who throws his spaghetti from the high chair onto his father's face, he's pushing back. He's sticking it to the man as he sees it. I like that. So that is punk.
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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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I don't believe it mattered to Timothy McVeigh who was president or who his congressional representative was when he blew up the Murrah Building in 1995.
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I think marriage is a boring and fault-ridden contractual obligation.
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A rose trapped inside a fist.
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Shirley Sherrod seems like a good and dedicated person.
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The only difference between me and others is that they think they can change something with cute little poems, nice cards or embracing trees and being nice to little lapdogs.
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If I had to perform in a comedy club I would bomb I would be trying too hard.
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It is instilled in thousands of American males from an early age that one of their requirements is to be able to both dish out and take a lot of pain. They are taught the rules of this road in gyms, rings, backyards and fields all over America.
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No magic. I do believe you might have taken it all with you when you went away.
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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'd like to talk to Sean Hannity in a controlled environment and say, 'O.K., you can't interrupt and jump up and down like a professional wrestler.'
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The ecstatic insanity of romantic pursuit can be so enhanced by music that entire romantic conquests, victories and ruinous, crushing defeats can be tied to songs to such a degree that it's almost unbearable to listen to them again, as they bring back the memories so vividly.
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If it were a choice between me getting killed or one of my friend's kids, I would happily take the shot.
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