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Every politician, every president gets votes by getting people that don't like him to like him. That's why politicians are slippery: because they talk out of both sides of their mouth.

Henry Rollins

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Henry Rollins
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: February 13
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If a slave were to raise his voice to his master, he risked all manner of punishment. Yet what was possible in many circumstances was to lift one's voice in song. This was a major ingredient in what is now known as blues and gospel. Slaves may have been regarded as subhuman by their cruel captors, but through music, they were proud and dignified.
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You are the untold story. You are the impassioned truth wanting to scream its existence, to be forever trapped by a strong hand clapped firmly over the mouth of my soul.
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I didn't want to work at Pizza Hut and I didn't want to join the Army. So I just decided to go out and be awesome.
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You can't get your head around something if you're yelling.
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All by yourself, unable to express the pain of your distress with your deeper inside. You alienate yourself and everybody else.
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If I had to perform in a comedy club I would bomb I would be trying too hard.
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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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My father did not rock. He just earned and hated. Don't end up like this man.
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I wouldn't want to roll the dice on Kabul by myself, because I really think getting killed is definitely a possibility there. A very good possibility.
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