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I don't have talent. I have tenacity.

Henry Rollins

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Henry Rollins
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: February 13
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I wasn't playing the music, the music was playing me... and once that went away, and I had the feeling I was playing music, I had to stop. The need to go onstage and get my brain flattened every night left me, and what I didn't wanna do is go onstage and perpetrate a fraud... You cannot fool an audience.
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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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'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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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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I like the idea of going out with a woman and not doing anything, and just eating dinner and talking, and that's cool, too. So, someone might look at me and say, No way, man. He's just banging strippers. And I do that, but not all the time.
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The tasks I set out for myself are what I do to beat the perfect pointlessness of life.
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When I'm off the road, and I can really control my diet down to the calorie, I juice seven days a week. Every afternoon, whatever I have at hand, beets, carrots, ginger, whatever. I juice, literally, every single day. And on the road, I try to find fresh juice wherever I can.
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I think marriage is a boring and fault-ridden contractual obligation.
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All of the jobs have gone away to satisfy the stockholders, so that's where the economy has gone. These major multinational corporations do not see their futures in America.
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Let's pretend my career in music is a bell. Whether you like my music or not is up to you. But you've got to admit I rang that bell pretty hard and pretty often.
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The opportunity to write for the 'L.A. Weekly' has been one of the better breaks that has come my way in a long time.
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If an American company has a drop of patriotic blood coursing through its system, then surely it would set up in America and employ Americans, right?
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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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If a slave were to raise his voice to his master, he risked all manner of punishment. Yet what was possible in many circumstances was to lift one's voice in song. This was a major ingredient in what is now known as blues and gospel. Slaves may have been regarded as subhuman by their cruel captors, but through music, they were proud and dignified.
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Some soldier will say, 'You know, sir, you and I have some political disagreements, but I'm glad you came all the way out here.' And you know, you say, 'Well, maybe one day you'll see the light but I'm glad to be out here with you.'
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I'll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does.
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What goes best with a cup of coffee? Another cup.
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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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