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" Do you know why Albert Camus was so prolific? He wrote to keep from screaming. "
Henry Rollins
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" Canadians are often a friendly bunch. "
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Friendly
Canadians
" 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. "
Henry Rollins
Problem
Race
People
" War is very sad and small life is pathetically fragile at times. "
Henry Rollins
Fragile
War
Very
" For many years, I tried to make New Year's resolutions. I made lists and shot for great heights: I would show altruism and exert moral strength, patience and all those other great attributes. "
Henry Rollins
Moral
New
Patience
" I don't believe in fate or destiny. I believe in various degrees of hatred, paranoia, and abandonment. However much of that gets heaped upon you doesn't matter - it's only a matter of how much you can take and what it does to you. "
Henry Rollins
You
Fate
Destiny
" For many years, my favorite director has been the Japanese giant Akira Kurosawa. "
Henry Rollins
Been
Director
Favorite
" 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
" I'd like to talk to Sean Hannity in a controlled environment and say, 'O.K., you can't interrupt and jump up and down like a professional wrestler.' "
Henry Rollins
Professional
Jump
Environment
" You need a little bit of insanity to do great things. "
Henry Rollins
Insanity
Great Things
Great
" I'm pessimistic. I don't think that justice always gets the right person. "
Henry Rollins
Justice
Always
Think
" Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good. "
Henry Rollins
Hurts
Truth
Sometimes
" Florida is a crazy place, and I have played some of the wildest shows of my life here. "
Henry Rollins
Florida
Crazy
Place
" If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light, If I lose paper and ink, I will write in blood on forgotten walls. I will write always. I will capture nights all over the world and bring them to you. "
Henry Rollins
Sun
World
Walls
" I don't mind bees and think we are all the better for having them around. I like the taste of honey. "
Henry Rollins
Honey
Think
Like
" I once asked Ozzy Osbourne, truly one of my favorite people in the world, if he was cool with singing Black Sabbath songs year after year, whether he was performing with Black Sabbath or out on a solo tour. He said it was great. "
Henry Rollins
World
Great
Cool
" Motivation has always been a fascinating factor when considering a touring artist, especially when the years stack up. What keeps one out there year after year? "
Henry Rollins
Artist
Year
Years
" When you start to doubt yourself the real world will eat you alive. "
Henry Rollins
Eat
Doubt
Yourself
" Chris Christie is New Jersey's concern, not America's. "
Henry Rollins
New
Jersey
Concern
" The first several years of my life were used to upload incredible amounts of fear, and I just became afraid of everything. I was afraid of my parents, afraid of my classmates, afraid of the streets of Washington, D.C. I would flinch at every gesture. "
Henry Rollins
My Life
Classmates
Fear
" It is only our humanity that can deliver us from the brutality of our achievements. "
Henry Rollins
Only
Brutality
Deliver
" A text conversation is a short exchange of often grossly truncated language that corresponds to a thought made all the more shallow by the process. "
Henry Rollins
Thought
Process
More
" More guns equaling more safety is a slippery slope, and what makes it so is human blood. "
Henry Rollins
More
Safety
Human
" My father did not rock. He just earned and hated. Don't end up like this man. "
Henry Rollins
Man
End
Father
" I think more airtime should be given to Donald Trump and Orly Taitz. They should run for office together. They should open for Charlie Sheen. "
Henry Rollins
Office
Together
Think
" Life is weird, great and dangerous. "
Henry Rollins
Weird
Life
Great
" If you think about it, every single species is endangered. Homo sapiens at the front of the line, mosquitoes and lawyers at the back. "
Henry Rollins
Line
Lawyers
Back
" You want to meet a bunch of really friendly people? Go to a Slayer concert. There'll be some real psychos there, but most of those people will take care of each other. "
Henry Rollins
Take Care
Care
You
" One person's disaster is another person's talking point. "
Henry Rollins
Point
Disaster
Person
" To this day, my haircut is the number two clippers, which I apply to myself every month. "
Henry Rollins
Haircut
Day
Two
" If an American company has a drop of patriotic blood coursing through its system, then surely it would set up in America and employ Americans, right? "
Henry Rollins
Right
America
American