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The opportunity to write for the 'L.A. Weekly' has been one of the better breaks that has come my way in a long time.

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Henry Rollins
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: February 13
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perfection. I have been waiting all my life to be with you. My heart slams against my ribs when I think of the slaughtered nights I spent all over the world waiting to feel your touch.
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Don't let despair mutate your flesh Look at my twisted stumps of thought See the fingers, listen to the voice I am slowly becoming the end of the line.
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Do it or don't. It's amazing how many things in life are that easy.
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If you really want a true confrontation, you treat your opponent with respect.
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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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The ecstatic insanity of romantic pursuit can be so enhanced by music that entire romantic conquests, victories and ruinous, crushing defeats can be tied to songs to such a degree that it's almost unbearable to listen to them again, as they bring back the memories so vividly.
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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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All of the things that the bible warns you of being: jealous, covetous, murderous, selfish, etc., that's kind of how humans are.
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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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I don't want to fail the audience. I don't want to let them down.
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My whole access into culture was violent. Violence is something I understand. Don't like it, don't condone it, but I sure understand where it comes from.
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In my world there would be as many public libraries as there are Starbucks.
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There is no heaven for me and no hell. And certainly not any Karma.
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How memories lie to us. How time coats the ordinary with gold. How it breaks the heart to go back and attempt to re-live them. How crushed we are when we discover that the gold was merely gold-plating thinly coated over lead, chalk and peeling paint.
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If some band sucks, you're going to have to find out about it for yourself, because I don't have the interest in issuing warnings.
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We know that in September, we will wander through the warm winds of summer's wreckage. We will welcome summer's ghost.
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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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What makes me uncomfortable about [Barack] Obama is what makes me uncomfortable about any young politician who has not yet been bloodied inside the Beltway.
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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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While I disagree with our presence in Iraq and Afghanistan, I have nothing but respect and admiration for the men and women deployed in these places.
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