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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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Hopefully, one enhances [when growing older] his sense of humor. As he approaches 50, he'll need all the humor he can get.
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I wouldn't want to roll the dice on Kabul by myself, because I really think getting killed is definitely a possibility there. A very good possibility.
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The average is the borderline that keeps mere men in their place. Those who step over the line are heroes by the very act. Go.
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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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For me, returning to Los Angeles annihilates the memories of where I have just been with an astonishing speed.
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Citizens United didn't work. Hey, Koch brothers, Karl Rove, Shellgame Adelson: Democracy trumps money sometimes.
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While I have no empirical evidence to back this up, I bet that the number of homosexual people per thousand has not fluctuated all that much over the centuries. I do not believe the dented wisdom my father used to extol, that homosexuality was a sure sign of a civilization in decline.
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I am a veteran of the War on Christmas. I am just emerging from a battlefield strewn with dead trees and torn shreds of brightly colored wrapping paper.
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Death metal uses a lot of white face paint and black hair dye to make its point. I quite enjoy this genre for its intensity, extremism and underlying irony: You have to be alive to play it and listen to it.
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I'm not much of an improv guy. That's a talent I don't have.
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In my many trips to South Africa, I have met and spoken to a lot of people there, and they all seem to find apartheid as repellent as you would.
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A lot of Americans don't have a passport, never will have a passport. Not only will they not travel, they don't want to travel.
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For the last 30-plus years, I have been doing one long, uninterrupted improv.
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It'll destroy you if you try to make it mean anything to anyone but yourself.
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The talking shows are like free jazz. I'm just gonna go out there and blow with the idea of keeping it streamlined and not wasting time. It's wild. And it's a great thing when you see a performer really able to.
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Politics is a thing that I follow because it determines what is going on in my country, but I vote and deal with politicians with a great degree of jaundiced eye.
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I am a pretty crazy person, so it's best for me to be on my own most of the time.
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