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

Henry Rollins

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Henry Rollins
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: February 13
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I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things.
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I'm terrified of motorcycles. I've been on one a couple of times. I did not like it.
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America's foreign policy lacks the backbone to do the right thing in Afghanistan - which is leave.
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Entertainment's hard on the ego. I see why actors are so psycho now. Because there's so much 'we don't want you' going on in acting. Even big people get rejected but the smaller people - they really get rejected. Trust me - I know.
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Sleep is for squares.
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Travelling as extensively as I do... the take away for me has made me very humble and very sympathetic to other people's plight in the world and very desirous of being proactive in being part of a solution somehow and not part of a problem. It's made me very patient and very grateful for where I live.
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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've made some great mistakes in my life, but, you know, they were honest mistakes.
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Youths write me and tell me that their band will go nowhere because of all the bad bands in the world. I tell them there has always been awful music and that no great band ever wasted any time complaining, they just got it done. Their ropey ranting is just a way to get out of the hard work of making music that will do some lasting damage.
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I was never told to Get up, get out there, get a job. It was never a thing either parent ever said I had to do. It was what I wanted to do. I think I was very interested in being away from them as much as possible. Employment was great for that.
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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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Quite often people will get an animal which is probably not a good idea for them to have. They get it out of enthusiasm, there is a genuine interest, but sometimes they're not exactly prepared for what they're getting themselves into.
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I'm of the opinion that the Democrats have the ideas I agree with more often than not. Reenergizing the middle class and giving people a break.
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Literally thousands of lawsuits have been filed against the NFL by retired players, many of whom say that information on brain injury in football was withheld from them.
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I always start tours with a great deal of anticipation.
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When you're little and you don't have much dough, you have to innovate. You have to be sharp.
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There's always going to be a need for activism there's always going to be a need for you and me doing the right thing, being very Lincoln-sonian in looking out for each other.
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I'm not a very good writer. I'm working at it.
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I know you’ll never love me but maybe you’ll stay for awhile.
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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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