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I don't think you'll ever have a perfect world because we humans are prone to error, and so we're always in search of an upgrade.

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Henry Rollins
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: February 13
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If you really want a true confrontation, you treat your opponent with respect.
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When people make my country look bad, I can't stand it.
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Early spring is the time for vigorous change, a preparation for the heat-driven oppression that is to come.
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A man with an excruciatingly painful condition wrote me and told me that his doctor said that the only cure for what he has is death, and he might want to consider suicide. What do you say to him? I doubt the, Hey let's go get some coffee and talk thing is going to be at all helpful.
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It has been hard to get my head around how Justice Antonin Scalia rationalizes his decisions. His body blow to the Voting Rights Act was a head scratcher, but at least he was calm when he attempted to justify his odd logic.
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It is very difficult to tell Americans that they can't do something.
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I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.
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I simply cannot understand how any parent could kill themselves.
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I come from a town of great musicians: Washington, D.C. It's no joke, that history.
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The prison-industrial complex and the military-industrial complex are here with us and are multi-billion dollar enterprises. We can make more money off the kid in Compton if he's a criminal instead of a scholar. It's business.
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perfection. I have been waiting all my life to be with you. My heart slams against my ribs when I think of the slaughtered nights I spent all over the world waiting to feel your touch.
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What you do for yourself is one thing. What you do for others is something else entirely.
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All by yourself, unable to express the pain of your distress with your deeper inside. You alienate yourself and everybody else.
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It is instilled in thousands of American males from an early age that one of their requirements is to be able to both dish out and take a lot of pain. They are taught the rules of this road in gyms, rings, backyards and fields all over America.
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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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I think that Goldman Sachs and the Pentagon determine more of America's outcome then any president or any congress, that sounds a bit cynical, but I think I am right.
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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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While I have not ruled out the possibility of doing music, what I don't want to do is go onstage and perform old songs. I do, all the time, but I don't think it is artistically brave.
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If you listen to the way I speak and watch the way I conduct myself - there's nothing about me that's rock n' roll. It's like, 'Hello, I'm in a rock n' roll band'. 'No, you're a narc.'
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