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" 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
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" Dinosaur Jr. in their live capacity are a band that put me in a state of such overwhelming rock that it often takes quite a while to come down. "
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Dinosaur
" I try to be well informed. I don't know how well I do all the time, but I try nonetheless. "
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" I'm disappointed by bands left and right, every day. "
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Day
" I would like to become a better photographer. I'm working on that. "
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" 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. "
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Fire
" But I have a good life. I enjoy what I do. I am married to work. "
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Work
Life
" I love to go on stage and sing. "
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Stage
I Love
Love
" It's why real men just go out in the woods and howl. I must do it and get paid. "
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" For a long time, when I was very young, I went to go see arena rock bands. I was 16, and it was all I could get in to see, legally. And I saw Led Zeppelin and Ted Nugent and Van Halen and all that. "
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Young
Long
Long Time
" It has been hard to get my head around how Justice Antonin Scalia rationalizes his decisions. His body blow to the Voting Rights Act was a head scratcher, but at least he was calm when he attempted to justify his odd logic. "
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Justice
Decisions
Calm
" For many years, my favorite director has been the Japanese giant Akira Kurosawa. "
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Been
Director
Favorite
" 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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Me
Road
Amazing
" It is only our humanity that can deliver us from the brutality of our achievements. "
Henry Rollins
Only
Brutality
Deliver
" Death metal uses a lot of white face paint and black hair dye to make its point. I quite enjoy this genre for its intensity, extremism and underlying irony: You have to be alive to play it and listen to it. "
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Enjoy
Death
Black
" I believe that contentment or any sustained period of joy that doesn't inspire thought that leads to action almost immediately is useless. "
Henry Rollins
Action
Joy
Thought
" Sarah Palin embarrasses herself almost immediately upon opening her mouth to speak or upon moving her fingers to send messages to her dull flock. "
Henry Rollins
Opening
Moving
Her
" When you start to doubt yourself the real world will eat you alive. "
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Eat
Doubt
Yourself
" I come from a town of great musicians: Washington, D.C. It's no joke, that history. "
Henry Rollins
Great
Washington
Musicians
" Don't do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul. When you go to work, work your ass off. When you hate someone, hate them until it hurts. "
Henry Rollins
Work
Love
Hate
" I think marriage is a boring and fault-ridden contractual obligation. "
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Boring
Obligation
Think
" Rarely do I do film press because I'm so low on the food chain of the movie, and for me it's just this thing I did for four weeks before the next tour started. "
Henry Rollins
Started
Me
Food
" If it's a man's world, as they say, then men, your world is a poorly run carnage fest. "
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Run
They Say
World
" Chris Christie is New Jersey's concern, not America's. "
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New
Jersey
Concern
" Young, gay and stuck in Arkansas? Sounds like a horror flick. "
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Gay
Stuck
Sounds
" When I see the hatred exacted at Mr. Obama - you know, he lowered your taxes, killed your number one bad guy and got your guys out of Iraq - I don't understand why he seems to inflame people so much. You know, unless, unless there's a race problem. "
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Problem
Race
People
" I can't remember that I ever had just a minute of stage fright. "
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Minute
Stage Fright
Remember
" My first introduction to African music was by my mother, who bought the 'Pata Pata' album by the great Miriam Makeba when it came out. Now that is an album. What a voice. "
Henry Rollins
Now
Mother
Music
" I am neither pro- nor anti-gun. I am gun-conscious. "
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I Am
Neither
Nor
" I think, to a great degree, we humans still divide ourselves into two species, even though we are monotypic. There are males and females. We see them as different and not equal. "
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See
Think
Equal
" It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew. "
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Knew
Know
Sad