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The best compliment I get every year is that a band will write me and say, 'We were just on tour, and we had people coming to our show saying they had never heard us before they heard us on your show.'

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Henry Rollins
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: February 13
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When you put yourself in environments that continually test you, that's where all the good stories come from. That's where the jokes come from is from the shitty parts.
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If American forces leave Afghanistan, the Taliban is going to do what to America? Don't say you're worried about what they will do to the Afghan people. If that was America's concern, America's operational presence there would be much different.
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The world's a better place since I chose music.
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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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Texas is as odd as it is vast.
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I think hip-hop has definitely brought the black experience to white kids more than the civil rights movement did and more than any teacher's well-intentioned lecture on Martin Luther King did.
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When I am in Africa, I realize I don't know much, have not seen much, and there's a lot to be done.
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There's something about being under-rested and knowing that the situation is going to remain that way for quite some time that makes things more meaningful.
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Like a lot of inwardly drawn young people, I spent a lot of time in libraries. At my high school, I often spent my lunch breaks there.
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As a teen, I heard the second Velvet Underground album, 'White Light/White Heat,' and it was too much for my limited scope of appreciation. It was intense, but I didn't get it.
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I always found the Chicago audience to be a smart, fast-moving, violent and cheerful lot, and it's always good to be back.
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The most interesting place by far was Afghanistan. Just because it is a place that I cannot see myself living. The hardness of the people and the history of the country is just so completely intense.
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You can still function as a living ruin.
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Amy Winehouse was not a person I ever met, and I can't say that I am overly conversant in all of her music. I do have her albums, and years ago, when I first heard her sing, I thought she was extraordinary. The tone of her voice, her phrasing, her raw appearance - these qualities were extremely captivating to me.
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I would like to become a better photographer. I'm working on that.
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I beg young people to travel.
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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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