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Where there is young people and vitality, you're going to find punk rock.

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Henry Rollins
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: February 13
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If you hate your parents, the man or the establishment, don't show them up by getting wasted and wrapping your car around a tree. If you really want to rebel against your parents, out-learn them, outlive them, and know more than they do.
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I'd rather work on my radio show, which no one hears but I put about eight hours of programming and writing into it for those 30 people who do tune in.
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A man came up to me the other day and said he hadn't had a bite in weeks. So you know what I did? I walked by him like he didn't even exist.
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I'm not harmful, just introspective. You can probably think I'm weird, but it's not harmful weird.
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Music, to me, is mankind's greatest possible achievement because look at all the good it does.
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Anywhere you hang yourself is home.
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Voting is completely important. People in America think democracy is a given. I think of it as an ecosystem, and what gets in the way of it is politicians and apathy.
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I can't imagine being sixty years of age and playing music I wrote when I was in my twenties. I would rather sail the sea of consequence to new lands. Laps around the shallow end of the pool, not for me.
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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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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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I thought I was gonna be in the minimum-wage working world all my life.
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One of the nice things about a favorite pop song is that it's an unconditional truce on judgment and musical snobbery. You like the song because you just do, and there need not be any further criticism.
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I'm actually on the Twitter like all those crazy young kids are, and if I'm going to do an in-store appearance or I post something on my website, I tweet these followers, a word I don't like so much, and over 50,000 people go, like, 'Okay, I got it.'
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You might as well enjoy the day - you never know when and how painfully it could all end.
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I like the idea of someone else’s love safely sealed in a song or a book.
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August in sub-Saharan Los Angeles is one of the great and awful tests of one's endurance, sanity and stamina.
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The world’s a better place since I chose music. I like the physical aspect of it, the volume and the intensity of it. It’s loud and hard. I like all that because inside me I feel like screaming.
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I work pretty much every day. I can't really separate it from life, so I guess the work is my life.
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Could it be that violence is as much a part of the American identity as the Constitution, and a vital component to its economic stability?
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America is a country born from semi-mythologized blood, glory and acts of selfless patriotic sacrifice.
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