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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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As a teen, I heard the second Velvet Underground album, 'White Light/White Heat,' and it was too much for my limited scope of appreciation. It was intense, but I didn't get it.
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There’s one thing about Black Sabbath which should not be understated: If Black Sabbath is missing any one of its members it’s no longer Black Sabbath.
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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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August, the summer's last messenger of misery, is a hollow actor.
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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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I have been an XL fan of Devo since I was in high school in the 1970s. Their records only sound better with time.
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In the worst of times the best among us never lose their moral compass, and that is how they emerge relatively unscathed.
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America's foreign policy lacks the backbone to do the right thing in Afghanistan - which is leave.
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I'd defend myself. But I don't go around shoving people around that's not me at all - that's for a cop. I'm not into that type of behavior at all.
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I want to meet a woman that will make me stop and listen to what she has to say. I want a woman who will make my jaw drop in awe. A woman that has little time for me. One who does not throw herself at me. One who respects herself who has a sense of herself. Where is she
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'The Great Gatsby' is a book I have read a few times, and it seems to get heavier every time I come to visit.
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Rock is ironic in that, up to a certain point, you can get better and better at it if you don't mind possibly looking more and more ridiculous.
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When Black Flag and DOA and all those bands were touring in the early 80s, it was kind of a forest and you just kind of got your way through it. Now it's like a six lane highway with Starbucks every twenty meters. That's just civilization.
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I think that humans have a huge capacity to carry pain and sadness. There are things that haunt us our entire lives we are unable to let them go. The good times seem almost effervescent and dreamlike in comparison with the times that didn't go so well.
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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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The blues is losing someone you love and not having enough money to immerse yourself in drink.
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It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.
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Every politician, every president gets votes by getting people that don't like him to like him. That's why politicians are slippery: because they talk out of both sides of their mouth.
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Florida is a crazy place, and I have played some of the wildest shows of my life here.
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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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