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" For me, returning to Los Angeles annihilates the memories of where I have just been with an astonishing speed. "
Henry Rollins
Speed
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Just
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" I wonder how Colin Powell sleeps at night. I would like to have a word with him because he lied. He lied. He lied to me. He lied to my face through the camera at the U.N. "
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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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" Young African-American males: Stop existing. It could get you killed. "
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" I don't believe it mattered to Timothy McVeigh who was president or who his congressional representative was when he blew up the Murrah Building in 1995. "
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" Rush Limbaugh makes money getting simpleminded people to feel good about their intellectually undernourished brain spasms. He's very good at it, and I scarcely believe a fraction of what he says. "
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" I get along with Australians really well. Everyone's usually really cool, and it's always a drag to leave. "
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" Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn't worth the time and effort. "
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Time
" I'm a big Germs fan; most people are. "
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People
Most
" I don't hate the government. I don't think the Second Amendment is being infringed upon. "
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Government
Amendment
" My first visit to West Berlin was in February 1983. The drive through East Berlin, the fact that West Berlin was surrounded by a wall that was more than 100 miles long - the absurdity and intensity of it really knocked me out. "
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More
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" If people are being upstanding citizens of the Republic, then you have to widen the net to incarcerate them. This explains why America's prisons are full of nonviolent offenders - a perfect example of American exceptionalism. "
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You
People
American
" Where there is young people and vitality, you're going to find punk rock. "
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Rock
Punk
" Have you ever heard the expression 'one hot mess?' I think the term was custom-made for the mayor of Toronto, Rob Ford. "
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Hot
Toronto
Expression
" What I don't want to do is go out there and not be able to mean it, you know? "
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Want
You
Know
" I tend to gravitate to the darkest or most obscure part of any venue in an effort to have my own space to experience the music on my own, free from unwanted conversations and other distractions. "
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Music
Effort
Experience
" In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move. "
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Plot
Winter
Spring
" In blues music, there's a lot of borrowing, so it's often difficult to identify the originator of a song. "
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Borrowing
Song
Blues
" I never thought about getting any tattoos removed. "
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Getting
About
Never
" I would like go to Palestine and interview people there about what their lives are like; same thing in Iran. "
Henry Rollins
Interview
Like
People
" August in sub-Saharan Los Angeles is one of the great and awful tests of one's endurance, sanity and stamina. "
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Endurance
Los Angeles
Tests
" I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone. "
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Stone
Inspirational
Parents
" Some people see Black Friday as a much-needed break for their wallet. I see it as retail outlets showing the customers the full weight of their contempt. The frenzy to buy cheap crap from China, the human downgrade of people fighting with each other over items they can probably live without, to me, is an insult. "
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Fighting
People
Live
" The truth is an anti-war statement in itself. "
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" Weakness is what brings ignorance, cheapness, racism, homophobia, desperation, cruelty, brutality, all these things that will keep a society chained to the ground, one foot nailed to the floor. "
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Society
Racism
Ignorance
" It is only our humanity that can deliver us from the brutality of our achievements. "
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Only
Brutality
Deliver
" I know that collector types can be a pain in the neck and seem perpetually frozen in time - or at least in their parents' basement - but someone has to look out for the past, lest it slip away forever. "
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Past
Know
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" I was a very repressed young person. I wasn't good at school. I didn't fit in. "
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Very
School
Person
" People will remember that the Tea Party was co-opted and funded by billion-dollar corporations, and that it was supported by Fox News and other outlets with the same vigor with which they attempt to denigrate the Occupy protesters. "
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" All my big heroes are literary, writers. "
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Heroes
Writers
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