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

Henry Rollins

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Henry Rollins
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: February 13
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The average is the borderline that keeps mere men in their place. Those who step over the line are heroes by the very act. Go.
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You know, we are one nation under a god. Yes, you were right. An angry, crack slinging god who decorates with bullets and spent condoms.
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All of the jobs have gone away to satisfy the stockholders, so that's where the economy has gone. These major multinational corporations do not see their futures in America.
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Republicans just can't help themselves. They get in front of a live microphone and within a few sentences are rocketing down the swiftest and most direct route to the all-you-can-eat comedian-and-talk-show-host buffet.
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If there is one set of laws, one Constitution for every citizen, its protections hopefully applied equally to all, then why do the results seem to differ so radically? What do you call that? Look around - you're living in it.
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I have to keep moving I don't want to think I'm going to work all day today I don't want to stop Don't want to let my brain catch up my thoughts How will I be able to tell them that I'm a shadow A grey patch of cold rotting life
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Do you know why Albert Camus was so prolific? He wrote to keep from screaming.
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When people make my country look bad, I can't stand it.
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I guess, topic to topic, you could consider me a left-leaning person.
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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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Could it be that violence is as much a part of the American identity as the Constitution, and a vital component to its economic stability?
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If you really want a true confrontation, you treat your opponent with respect.
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When you're little and you don't have much dough, you have to innovate. You have to be sharp.
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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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I think it's very sad that the political landscape is so dotted with religious extremists who feel the need to infringe upon the lives of decent, free and harmless Americans who want nothing more than to be in love and to spend the rest of their lives together.
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My fear is naked, I'm naked and fearless, And my fear is naked...
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Songs sung under duress are often very powerful.
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Florida is a crazy place, and I have played some of the wildest shows of my life here.
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I am a veteran of the War on Christmas. I am just emerging from a battlefield strewn with dead trees and torn shreds of brightly colored wrapping paper.
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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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