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What you do for yourself is one thing. What you do for others is something else entirely.

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Henry Rollins
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: February 13
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I can tell you exactly where the economy is going. It's going to China, Honduras, Guatemala, Cambodia, Vietnam, Cipan, and any other place where you can pay people peanuts and have them work like dogs.
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Nothing brings people together more, than mutual hatred.
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I used to love you I still do So Selfish I love the old you The you that didnt shoot drugs ...The you that didnt get beat on by men You laugh in my face and call me a fool But its true I still love you Sometimes,I can see the old you When your eyes flash When you almost look alive
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Kids need parents who love and support them unconditionally, full stop.
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Basically, men are afraid of women and can’t handle the fact that they came out of the same thing they spend the rest of their lives trying to get back into.
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What does New York sound like? For me, the Charlie Parker at the Royal Roost recordings on the Savoy label are the total embodiment of the New York music experience.
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The first Van Halen album makes Johnny Rotten out to be what he really was and still is: a hairdresser.
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I want to learn more about the world. It makes me want to get up and go.
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Your commander would never lie to you. That's the vice president's job.
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You could split hairs and bring up words like 'doo-wop' and terms like 'soul' or 'R&B', but I think pop music is what you want it to be - that's why it's pop.
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I am very ambitious in a way, in that I'm not trying to be the richest guy or whatever. I just really like my work.
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Americans have been dumbed down to the point where more people watching 'American Idol' than listen to the state of the union address. And that's too bad. I'm not trying to take any bread out of the mouth of Simon Cowell, but if the president is speaking to the people of the United States, and people are going to watch 'American Idol,' that's sad.
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I'm not interested in censorship. I like the First Amendment very much.
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Smart people make good choices. They dig science and say 'no' to the invasion of sovereign nations for the pleasure of corporations.
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It'll destroy you if you try to make it mean anything to anyone but yourself.
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A country that has been through as much as Vietnam has to have some crazy music somewhere.
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Texas is as odd as it is vast.
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The blues is losing someone you love and not having enough money to immerse yourself in drink.
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From those who agonize that they may no longer be able to write off their private jet to someone who doesn't feel like making the three mile hike to the well to get water and carry it back, everyone struggles.
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George Zimmerman is a foot soldier in a rapidly privatizing country. He is a new centurion of 21st-century America. Law enforcement is tied down by the strictures of, well, the law. There is only 'so much they can do' to take care of the 'problem.'
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