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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
Actor
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Now, if someone wants to spit on me, I just roll up the window of my BMW 540i.
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After having read a lot of fiction, literature, whatever you want to call it, from Wolfe to Houellebecq, I think you have to have an understanding and insight of the human condition that is informed and motivated by a desire to immerse yourself in the human world and bring these stories to bear.
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When Black Flag and DOA and all those bands were touring in the early 80s, it was kind of a forest and you just kind of got your way through it. Now it's like a six lane highway with Starbucks every twenty meters. That's just civilization.
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I don't cuss in songs. It's too easy.
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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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The only thing about sanctions is that, like a lot of drone strikes, there are countless unintended victims. Cutting off aid to Uganda only increases the pain there.
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If I'm in L.A. for longer than 20 days, I'm looking for work, because I don't do vacations.
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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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Do you know why Albert Camus was so prolific? He wrote to keep from screaming.
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I want to learn more about the world. It makes me want to get up and go.
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I beg young people to travel.
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I get a lot of shit because I put I in the lyrics all the time. The I is always for someone else... When I say I, it's so that when that person is singing along with the song, it empowers them.
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If the truth is told how I want to be remembered... as someone who cared. Someone who worked really hard and someone who didn't sit around.
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I used to sit on the roof of the apartment where Jim Morrison used to write his early lyrics
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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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Too bad that Paul Ryan confessed to being a fan of Rage Against The Machine. By doing so, he not only begged for a bucketing by many of their fans but actually got one from the band's guitar player, Tom Morello.
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I see walking bombs on the street Hearts not beating, but ticking
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I have to keep moving I don't want to think I'm going to work all day today I don't want to stop Don't want to let my brain catch up my thoughts How will I be able to tell them that I'm a shadow A grey patch of cold rotting life
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Every summer, around late July and into August, I find myself in Europe, performing at any festival that will have me.
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It wasn't until my late twenties that I learned that by working out I had given myself a great gift. I learned that nothing good comes without work and a certain amount of pain. When I finish a set that leaves me shaking, I know more about myself. When something gets bad, I know it can't be as bad as that workout.
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