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Henry Rollins
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: February 13
Actor
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Human Rights Activist
Journalist
Musician
Peace Activist
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Washington
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I'm always looking, people are always presenting and I have found that every year of my life there's been great bands. All over the world, all the time. So when someone goes, Music sucks now! I'll go, I don't think so. Not over at my house.
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I think more tolerance, more people having more access to a chance to be literate, and a chance to stay healthy makes for a more peaceful planet.
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I'm not exactly ambitious as much as I have a very good realization of what I am and what I am capable of.
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I do a lot of stuff for free anyway. Like a lot of people who you see who don't need money. Mick Jagger - he needs money? He just likes to go sing Satisfaction every night. If I wrote that song I probably would do it too.
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For many years, my favorite director has been the Japanese giant Akira Kurosawa.
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Cynicism is only intellectual sloth.
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if i was a woman these days, i'd be killing motherfuckers. my handgun would never cool and my hands would be covered in testicular blood. i would have a horrible reputation with a lot of men because i would be calling them on their weak bullshit left and right.
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Muscle mass does not always equal strength. Strength is kindness and sensitivity. Strength is understanding that your power is both physical and emotional. That it comes from the body and the mind. And the heart.
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I like the idea of going out with a woman and not doing anything, and just eating dinner and talking, and that's cool, too. So, someone might look at me and say, No way, man. He's just banging strippers. And I do that, but not all the time.
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No time for drug addiction, no time for smoke or booze. Too strong for a shortened life span, I've got no time to lose.
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As far as what people think of me, maybe my stuff should just be put online for free downloads when I'm gone.
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Maybe I'm ego-tripping, but I don't find myself a particularly horrible person, so I don't think I need to hold back anything I think or feel.
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I can die anytime I want. I wish I could do the same with life.
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Without an education, you won't have a future.
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I am very ambitious in a way, in that I'm not trying to be the richest guy or whatever. I just really like my work.
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Creativity requires a lot of pass/fail/start again and it is often hard on the psyche.
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Hating someone is giving them too much, just leave them alone.
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The blues is losing someone you love and not having enough money to immerse yourself in drink.
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I think to write fiction, this is just how I see it, you have to have a powerful need/desire to connect. I can't. Wanting to and not being able to has lead to a lot of misery in my life.
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Castle Face Records, run by The Oh Sees main man, Johnny Dwyer is always worth checking in with.
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