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The arts in America exist in spite of America, not because of America.

Henry Rollins

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Henry Rollins
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: February 13
Actor
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Human Rights Activist
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Musician
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Basically, men are afraid of women and can’t handle the fact that they came out of the same thing they spend the rest of their lives trying to get back into.
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I love to go on stage and sing.
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The number of people who are actual supporters of Mr. Romney could very well be less than the Donner Party, whose members they sadly resemble in many ways.
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If an American company has a drop of patriotic blood coursing through its system, then surely it would set up in America and employ Americans, right?
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My desires are foolish. The things I want are better kept to myself. The hand of silence is steady. The hard blade of silence is clean like night. The code is absolute. Silence is eternal and patient. Silence never makes a fool of itself like I have so many times.
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The destructive power of a lie is stronger than the truth.
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Not that the writers weren't good. I believe in those books and those writers very much. It's just that in the climate it's really hard to keep the lights on and the doors open when you're selling poetry and literature that appeals to a fringe audience.
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You know, we are one nation under a god. Yes, you were right. An angry, crack slinging god who decorates with bullets and spent condoms.
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Of course same sex marriage is constitutional! The right to be yourself, to pursue life, liberty, and property, is protected several ways over several amendments. John Boehner should know this.
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I work pretty much every day. I can't really separate it from life, so I guess the work is my life.
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Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn't worth the time and effort.
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When you start to doubt yourself the real world will eat you alive.
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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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You can still function as a living ruin.
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One person's roar is another's whine, just as one person's music is another's unendurable noise.
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To justify being listened to, I try to be as well informed as I can. Hence, the travel. Reading is good too. Reading gets you part way there, and I do read pretty voraciously for a guy who's trying to write so much.
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My love runs deeper than the wounds.
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Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium.
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My father did not rock. He just earned and hated. Don't end up like this man.
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I'm not trying to amass people in the streets. I just want them to be more aware.
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