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" America sold VX nerve gas and anthrax to Iraq for years, even after the Halabja gas attack, which killed thousands of Kurds. "
Henry Rollins
Gas
Attack
America
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" Sleep is for squares. "
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Squares
Sleep
" No matter how rough things can be at times, many Americans are optimistic and on the move. "
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Matter
How
Rough
" Michele Bachmann is always a great person to go to for an opinion about anything. She has a very active and interesting mind. "
Henry Rollins
Mind
She
Opinion
" 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. "
Henry Rollins
People
High School
Time
" I am not immune to the lure of a signed record, flier or set list. The fact that your music heroes potentially had, in their own hands, the record you now have in yours is kind of cool. When the musician has departed, it can give the thing a unique power. "
Henry Rollins
Cool
Unique
I Am
" America is off-the-hook gay. I will not go all Ann Coulter on you and say, 'Our gays are better than their gays,' but as far as countries go, we are in-your-face gay. "
Henry Rollins
You
America
Better
" As the middle class is predated upon with an ever greater malicious intensity, their children stand to lose more and harder than their parents ever did. "
Henry Rollins
Children
Parents
Lose
" There's tons of junk food for your mind on the Internet. You can sit there for three or 10 or 20 hours a day getting in online arguments with other people who also choose to waste their time. "
Henry Rollins
People
Time
Mind
" I'm of the opinion that the Democrats have the ideas I agree with more often than not. Reenergizing the middle class and giving people a break. "
Henry Rollins
Opinion
Giving
Class
" We Americans are hard on almost everything. We are hard on our vehicles, our marriages and our heroes. Mostly, however, we are hard on ourselves. "
Henry Rollins
Everything
Our
Heroes
" Literally thousands of lawsuits have been filed against the NFL by retired players, many of whom say that information on brain injury in football was withheld from them. "
Henry Rollins
Say
Brain
Football
" I don't have a crystal ball, but I'm willing to bet one of my arms right now that as long as there's electricity, Ramones music is going to be relevant. "
Henry Rollins
Music
Long
Electricity
" Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium. "
Henry Rollins
Artist
Giving
Yourself
" The month of November makes me feel that life is passing more quickly. In an effort to slow it down, I try to fill the hours more meaningfully. "
Henry Rollins
Down
Me
Slow
" As far as I have been able to understand, the Japanese seem to keep things close to the vest. Friendly but remote and polite to the point of being invisible. It is in the music, literature, film and art that the Japanese really seem to express themselves. "
Henry Rollins
Literature
Understand
Art
" I'm not interested in censorship. I like the First Amendment very much. "
Henry Rollins
First Amendment
Censorship
First
" I've never heard Daft Punk; I've never heard a track of theirs in my life. They're the two guys with motorcycle helmets on? "
Henry Rollins
Never
Two
Life
" I have to do things for myself, and if those standards are set high, then it's up to me to pass or fail. "
Henry Rollins
Me
Up
Standards
" The Ruts were a great punk rock band from England whose songs were as excellent as their time together was short. "
Henry Rollins
Time
Band
Short
" As a teen, I heard the second Velvet Underground album, 'White Light/White Heat,' and it was too much for my limited scope of appreciation. It was intense, but I didn't get it. "
Henry Rollins
Appreciation
Teen
Too Much
" There is a lot to say about what Bikini Kill and other 'riot grrrl' bands were able to achieve when they first set out. They were not some momentary, convulsive, creative spasm of independent music. There was a very real, relevant point of view being expressed. "
Henry Rollins
Music
Creative
Point Of View
" 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. "
Henry Rollins
Me
More
Absurdity
" After I left D.C. to join Black Flag, I felt I was in a band. "
Henry Rollins
Left
Flag
Black
" Keep your blood clean, your body lean, and your mind sharp. "
Henry Rollins
Body
Clean
Blood
" Each year, every city in the world that can should have a multiday festival. More people meeting each other, digging new types of music, new foods, new ideas. You want to stop having so many wars? This could be a step in the right direction. "
Henry Rollins
Music
Step
People
" Let's pretend my career in music is a bell. Whether you like my music or not is up to you. But you've got to admit I rang that bell pretty hard and pretty often. "
Henry Rollins
Bell
You
Hard
" I don't mind The Boss. I think he's an honest guy. I have some of his records, not all of them. I've met a couple of the E-Street guys, and they seem really cool. "
Henry Rollins
Honest
Mind
Boss
" 'Duck Dynasty' is a ridiculous show, and long may it wave. America and democracy will endure. They've seen a lot worse. "
Henry Rollins
Long
Duck
Democracy
" Without an education, you won't have a future. "
Henry Rollins
Without
Education
You
" Change is hard, but change is good. "
Henry Rollins
Hard
Good
Change