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One person's roar is another's whine, just as one person's music is another's unendurable noise.

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Henry Rollins
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: February 13
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The best revenge is to always survive yourself.
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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.
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I've never killed anybody... but I've definitely thought about it.
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As performers grow older, I reckon there are two ways they can go. They can either be up there, playing more deeply from their guts than ever, or they can be phoning it in so crassly that it leaves a lump in your throat as you leave the venue at the end of the show.
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Everyone should have the right to go off and do their music or do their books. The people who are in the position to censor they're really not down to reality where that certain artists are coming from.
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