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" More guns equaling more safety is a slippery slope, and what makes it so is human blood. "
Henry Rollins
More
Safety
Human
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" For me, jazz will always be the soundtrack of the civil rights movement. "
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" To combat the confusion and depression that assault me when I come off the road in the middle of a tour, I seek the most oblivionated music possible. When it's the 'way out there' that I seek, I go right to my stash of amazing music from Japan. "
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Road
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" I think self-reliance and self-responsibility and self-accountability will help you as a parent, a teacher, as a citizen as a friend. "
Henry Rollins
Teacher
Help
Friend
" I don't cuss in songs. It's too easy. "
Henry Rollins
Songs
Too
Cuss
" Too bad that Paul Ryan confessed to being a fan of Rage Against The Machine. By doing so, he not only begged for a bucketing by many of their fans but actually got one from the band's guitar player, Tom Morello. "
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Band
Doing
" 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. "
Henry Rollins
Society
Racism
Ignorance
" The perpetrators of the actual bad stuff that does real and lasting harm to people, like leakage of industrial chemicals into water systems, seem to get not so much as a second glance; the bloviation from media pundits and think tanks creates false problems that waste time and energy debunking. "
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Think
Time
Water
" 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. "
Henry Rollins
Soul
You
Words
" Try driving the streets of Los Angeles without seeing a billboard depicting a film with a lead actor holding a gun. It's almost as if guns are harmless props used to bring out the cheekbones and jawline of the screen star. "
Henry Rollins
Los Angeles
Seeing
Try
" In Israel, there's a lot to learn from anyone, because to live there you've got to deal with the truth. Things happen real fast. Your day goes from cool to catastrophic in one second. Israelis know that the cafe you're in could blow up, or the shopping mall, and they rock that. "
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Cool
Shopping
Truth
" For me, Memphis has always been a city that holds a great deal of meaning and also leads me to a lot of thinking. Besides Sun Studio, which helped put rock n' roll on the map all over the world, the legendary Stax Studio also called Memphis home. "
Henry Rollins
City
Home
Great
" To hate is to show you still care, who needs that, focus on what's really important. "
Henry Rollins
You
Hate
Focus
" Juan Williams is a very sharp guy. "
Henry Rollins
Guy
Williams
Very
" I think Naomi Klein was very astute with her book 'Shock Doctrine.' We make money on disaster. "
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Her
Shock
Think
" I'm disappointed by bands left and right, every day. "
Henry Rollins
Every Day
Disappointed
Day
" If I'm jetlagging, and I've missed some meals, and it gets to that point in a movie that you're supposed to cry, I'll let my defences down from around my inherent standing level of cynicism, and I'll cry. "
Henry Rollins
Standing
You
Missed
" There's no rule that you have to like Henry Rollins the musician or the actor. "
Henry Rollins
Actor
Musician
Rule
" I know I was a generic dysfunctional child, but I think a lot of people are. "
Henry Rollins
Lot
Generic
Child
" When someone asks you, 'What's punk?' my reply is, 'If you have to ask, you're never going to know.' "
Henry Rollins
Reply
Know
You
" I have come to the conclusion that it's a waste of time to have too much pride in anything. Perhaps it's good to have a sense of duty, a jealous zeal to protect or improve, but pride ultimately is only that which stands vulnerable to offense and degradation. "
Henry Rollins
Pride
Too Much
Good
" Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated. "
Henry Rollins
Hope
Person
Before
" To see change in your own area code is very powerful. There's a little orphanage down the street from my company, and we donate $1 from the sale of each CD we sell to the orphanage. "
Henry Rollins
Street
Change
Down
" Every summer, around late July and into August, I find myself in Europe, performing at any festival that will have me. "
Henry Rollins
Myself
Find
Me
" If I'm in L.A. for longer than 20 days, I'm looking for work, because I don't do vacations. "
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Work
Because
Than
" I get along with Australians really well. Everyone's usually really cool, and it's always a drag to leave. "
Henry Rollins
Always
Leave
Get
" I don't need to have my convictions confirmed by a show of numbers. However, being among people in front of a band leads me to believe that all is not lost, that humans, now and then, can communicate on a higher level than the political and the practical. "
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People
Political
Me
" We're at peak oil, peak water, peak resources, and so either we figure it out and let science lead or we head down a very bad, dark trail to where a lot of people aren't going to make it. "
Henry Rollins
Down
People
Science
" I was in Pakistan in Islamabad when Bhutto was assassinated, and the next day, you know, there's just plumes of smoke everywhere. I mean, Islamabad is on fire. "
Henry Rollins
You
Know
Fire
" You might as well enjoy the day - you never know when and how painfully it could all end. "
Henry Rollins
Day
You
Never
" Jazz music is as American as it gets, and so is the U.S. Postal Service. A Miles Davis stamp is a perfect marriage of two great American institutions. "
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Marriage
Service
Perfect