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It is very difficult to tell Americans that they can't do something.

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Henry Rollins
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: February 13
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Miles Davis would have this lineup of all these amazing musicians and one day would just say, 'We're done.' After tons of great records and tickets sold, he said, 'Now I'm going to grow my hair out and play my horn through a wah-wah pedal.' Rather than play it safe, he went on.
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When you see the Escalades and the Hummers driving down the street, at least in Los Angeles, this dry, flat desert with shopping malls, when you see someone driving one of those through this you're like, 'You are definitely part of the problem.'
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I try to get myself up and moving as early as possible. Optimum is to be on the treadmill while it is still dark outside.
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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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This is my 25th year of being on stage. A lot of people who I kind of toed up to the starting line with are no longer in this position. I feel very, very lucky.
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Cynicism is only intellectual sloth.
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Football is at least as 'gay' as rugby, Greco-Roman wrestling and the film '300.'
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Songs sung under duress are often very powerful.
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I'm not interested in censorship. I like the First Amendment very much.
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When you put yourself in environments that continually test you, that's where all the good stories come from. That's where the jokes come from is from the shitty parts.
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Each year, every city in the world that can should have a multiday festival. More people meeting each other, digging new types of music, new foods, new ideas. You want to stop having so many wars? This could be a step in the right direction.
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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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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 know that collector types can be a pain in the neck and seem perpetually frozen in time - or at least in their parents' basement - but someone has to look out for the past, lest it slip away forever.
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I've never killed anybody... but I've definitely thought about it.
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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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I think marriage is a boring and fault-ridden contractual obligation.
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I have lived in public as a somewhat recognizable person since I was a teenager. Emails I answer end up posted on sites pictures of me and someone I just met, taken by a cellphone, literally number in the thousands and are easily accessed.
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Now you see how you are, the wisdom mixed in with all the scars.
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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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