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" Giving a good performance, giving it all is what it's all about. I love to perform. "
Henry Rollins
Love
Good
Giving
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" Those who seek to profit by division don't stand a chance. "
Henry Rollins
Division
Seek
Stand
" Every politician, every president gets votes by getting people that don't like him to like him. That's why politicians are slippery: because they talk out of both sides of their mouth. "
Henry Rollins
Politicians
Talk
Why
" When a young non-white male is stopped and searched at the whim of a police officer, his idea of personal space, privacy and self esteem are shattered, to say nothing of his Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment protections. The damage goes deep quickly and stays. Stop & frisk, as well as a tactic, is also an incitement. "
Henry Rollins
Deep
Space
Self
" Musicians should not play music. Music should play musicians. "
Henry Rollins
Play Music
Play
Musicians
" I forged myself out of a vacuum. I crawl along the highway on hacked off stumps year after year. Some wonder how and why. I never do. "
Henry Rollins
Wonder
Why
Off
" I'm mellower now, I'm over 50. But I don't think I'm too mellow. I'm still angry at a lot of things. "
Henry Rollins
Things
Angry
Now
" In my bright, utopian future world, they will hand out college educations like cups of water at the end of the L.A. Marathon. "
Henry Rollins
College
Future
World
" As long as I tell the truth I feel that nobody can touch me. "
Henry Rollins
Feel
Truth
Touch
" I don't think you'll ever have a perfect world because we humans are prone to error, and so we're always in search of an upgrade. "
Henry Rollins
Search
World
Think
" Without an education, you won't have a future. "
Henry Rollins
Without
Education
You
" I don't know if music has ever achieved anything past appealing to the people that it appeals to. If a song could stop a war, then Bob Marley and Bob Dylan songs would have stopped one or two. "
Henry Rollins
People
War
Song
" So I'm more at home with my backpack, sleeping in a hotel room or on a bus or on an airplane, than I am necessarily on a bed. It's weird being here. It feels like I'm standing next to my real life. "
Henry Rollins
Home
Weird
Life
" You might as well enjoy the day - you never know when and how painfully it could all end. "
Henry Rollins
Day
You
Never
" Adolescence is a plague on the senses. "
Henry Rollins
Senses
Adolescence
Plague
" Without the blues, modern music would be nothing like it is now - not remotely. "
Henry Rollins
Without
Now
Nothing
" I think it's important to have some documentation of the past. "
Henry Rollins
Think
Past
Important
" I think young people should travel and travel often to other countries... like I do. "
Henry Rollins
Travel
People
Like
" You need a little bit of insanity to do great things. "
Henry Rollins
Insanity
Great Things
Great
" Keep your blood clean, your body lean, and your mind sharp. "
Henry Rollins
Body
Clean
Blood
" The history of apartheid-era South Africa is incredibly sad and at times infuriatingly incomprehensible. "
Henry Rollins
Africa
History
Sad
" I don't cuss in songs. It's too easy. "
Henry Rollins
Songs
Too
Cuss
" The idea that any performer type is owed anything is a joke to me. "
Henry Rollins
Idea
Me
Performer
" I like boring black and white films with subtitles. I'm basically a drip. "
Henry Rollins
Boring
Black And White
Black
" Pride is a thing that I have tried to abandon completely. Try as I might, pride still creeps into many of the things I do. "
Henry Rollins
Things
Many
Pride
" 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
" I think the U.K. is an amazing place and has been extremely good to me. Some of my favorite and most-listened-to bands are from England. I have met many good people there and have been in front of some of the most loyal audiences I have ever encountered. "
Henry Rollins
People
Think
Place
" Chris Christie is New Jersey's concern, not America's. "
Henry Rollins
New
Jersey
Concern
" The Internet, the camera cellphone and the like have not only sped up the world's information uptake, but they have cheapened that which they capture. "
Henry Rollins
Up
World
Internet
" The opportunity to write for the 'L.A. Weekly' has been one of the better breaks that has come my way in a long time. "
Henry Rollins
Better
Time
Opportunity
" I don't want to pass through life like a smooth plane ride. "
Henry Rollins
Want
Through
Smooth