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I'm not trying to amass people in the streets. I just want them to be more aware.

Henry Rollins

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Henry Rollins
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: February 13
Actor
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I'd like to be a better writer, but I have no dreams to direct or do a screenplay. And I'd love to have a big starring role in a movie because the paycheck would be bigger. That's the only reason I do films.
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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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I thought I was gonna be in the minimum-wage working world all my life.
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In many ways, America is on the receiving end of a pendulum that has been swung with great force, and for a long time, outward into the world. The impact is a wake-up call on every level.
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Texas is as odd as it is vast.
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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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I'm not exactly ambitious as much as I have a very good realization of what I am and what I am capable of.
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If I had to live my life in anticipation of what others thought of me, little would get done.
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When you have to work with and exist amongst cynical, burned-out personnel on a set, it doesn't matter what you're shooting or how much you're being paid - it's not worth it.
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What goes best with a cup of coffee? Another cup.
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When the Iron doesn't want to come off the mat, it's the kindest thing it can do for you. If it flew up and went through the ceiling, it wouldn't teach you anything.
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Muscle mass does not always equal strength. Strength is kindness and sensitivity. Strength is understanding that your power is both physical and emotional. That it comes from the body and the mind. And the heart.
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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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The fact is, in the minds of many, Trayvon Martin received the appropriate punishment for a true crime: He was black, male and dared to walk outside. In life, young Trayvon was just a teenager in death, he has been transformed into a scary, lurking, suspicious, prone-to-violence spook.
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I think I am the most impressed with writing styles that defy category, like Kharms or Selby, Breton or Jarry, where you become as interested in the writer as much as the writing itself. It's all these things that make reading so appealing to me.
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My first introduction to African music was by my mother, who bought the 'Pata Pata' album by the great Miriam Makeba when it came out. Now that is an album. What a voice.
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When you start to doubt yourself the real world will eat you alive.
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The destructive power of a lie is stronger than the truth.
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I don't have talent. I have tenacity.
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The times I have tried to get close to someone resulted in me feeling threatened and weak.
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