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My father did not rock. He just earned and hated. Don't end up like this man.

Henry Rollins

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Henry Rollins
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: February 13
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Rock is ironic in that, up to a certain point, you can get better and better at it if you don't mind possibly looking more and more ridiculous.
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And I laugh at myself when I screw things up, which happens all the time.
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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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Human beings should not be reduced to a state to where they almost get into a fight over a small bar of soap.
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Technically speaking, there is no music whatsoever on a CD. Lots of information, but no music.
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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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If I could go to Kabul and not die, I would go back to Afghanistan as soon as I could. And, that was the most interesting place that I've been to.
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Everyone should have the right to go off and do their music or do their books. The people who are in the position to censor they're really not down to reality where that certain artists are coming from.
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I take the work seriously, just not myself in it.
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Marriage equality is a term so ridiculous on its face that when you hear it mentioned, you would think you were in Riyadh. Years from now, perhaps we can lose the equality part, the same-sex part and call it what it is - marriage.
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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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The perpetrators of the actual bad stuff that does real and lasting harm to people, like leakage of industrial chemicals into water systems, seem to get not so much as a second glance the bloviation from media pundits and think tanks creates false problems that waste time and energy debunking.
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I do think that Americans are poorly served by their media, at times extremely poorly served by their elected officials who are non responsive to majority feelings and cut off to a certain degree from the affairs of the world.
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Certainly, there are huge, multiplatinum bands whose singers command their audience's attention. Sadly, much of the time they have little to say.
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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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I was a very repressed young person. I wasn't good at school. I didn't fit in.
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Where there is young people and vitality, you're going to find punk rock.
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I'm not a very good writer. I'm working at it.
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I don't have talent. I have tenacity.
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What I'm saying is America has a job deficit because hundreds of thousands of jobs went elsewhere. Not because [Barack] Obama raised your taxes. He, in fact, lowered them. They are lower.
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