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For the last 30-plus years, I have been doing one long, uninterrupted improv.

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Henry Rollins
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: February 13
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You can pass all the gun legislation you want. None of it will make me feel any more or less safe than I do right at this moment.
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Do it or don't. It's amazing how many things in life are that easy.
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How memories lie to us. How time coats the ordinary with gold. How it breaks the heart to go back and attempt to re-live them. How crushed we are when we discover that the gold was merely gold-plating thinly coated over lead, chalk and peeling paint.
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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 forged myself out of a vacuum. I crawl along the highway on hacked off stumps year after year. Some wonder how and why. I never do.
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America is a country born from semi-mythologized blood, glory and acts of selfless patriotic sacrifice.
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I can only write about personal stuff, about my point of view.
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Love beyond the damage.
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I get tired of talking when I want to be silent.
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In the worst of times the best among us never lose their moral compass, and that is how they emerge relatively unscathed.
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Everyone who knows me knows that I'm a hopeless romantic who listens to love ballads and doo-wop songs all the time.
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I'd defend myself. But I don't go around shoving people around that's not me at all - that's for a cop. I'm not into that type of behavior at all.
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Whether I will be remembered at all, I really don't get to choose, unless I shoot someone famous. It's not really anything I have much control over.
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Hating someone is giving them too much, just leave them alone.
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I am primarily a loner. I don't go to clubs. I don't hang out with people. I don't know many people. It's just the way it ended up. It's not a sob story it's fine for me.
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I will do my best to dodge tonight's depression Hide in sleep Damage myself in dreams Wake up older, slightly more used.
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You can still function as a living ruin.
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I thought I was gonna be in the minimum-wage working world all my life.
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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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The fact is that I am always thinking of something to build. A new book, radio show, plans for a trip somewhere. I am not a very happy person but I feel pretty even when I am working, so I guess that is how I am wired.
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