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" I always start tours with a great deal of anticipation. "
Henry Rollins
Great
Always
Anticipation
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" I've been on 'Jay Leno,' and everyone likes Jay, but being on that show is a really boring afternoon. I sincerely like Jay, but I wouldn't want his job, because I'd have to interview Kathy Ireland, and there's nothing there I'd want to know. "
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" Being in New York is an almost overwhelming experience. While Washington, D.C., is my favorite American city, I regard New York City as the most amazing city in the world. No other comes close. It is an incredible, inexhaustible engine. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" That Newt Gingrich or any mainstream Republican has the nerve to look down from what they perceive as their moral mountaintop at anyone is laughable. "
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" 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. "
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" I'm not into fame. I'm not into making money, outside of financing my books. I'm not into status. My thing is basically about time - not wasting it. "
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" When you start to doubt yourself the real world will eat you alive. "
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" Technically speaking, there is no music whatsoever on a CD. Lots of information, but no music. "
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Speaking
" The ecstatic insanity of romantic pursuit can be so enhanced by music that entire romantic conquests, victories and ruinous, crushing defeats can be tied to songs to such a degree that it's almost unbearable to listen to them again, as they bring back the memories so vividly. "
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Memories
Music
" Have you ever heard the expression 'one hot mess?' I think the term was custom-made for the mayor of Toronto, Rob Ford. "
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Toronto
Expression
" 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. "
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Why
Off
" The best compliment I get every year is that a band will write me and say, 'We were just on tour, and we had people coming to our show saying they had never heard us before they heard us on your show.' "
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People
Best
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" 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? "
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Year
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" You must never lower yourself to being a person you don't like. "
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Like
Must
" When someone asks you, 'What's punk?' my reply is, 'If you have to ask, you're never going to know.' "
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Reply
Know
You
" I'm not harmful, just introspective. You can probably think I'm weird, but it's not harmful weird. "
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Just
You
Think
" I'd like to talk to Arnold Schwarzenegger, 'cause I live in California and I just want to see that canned, chemical filled body in my office. "
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Body
Office
Live
" Shirley Sherrod seems like a good and dedicated person. "
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Dedicated
Good
Like
" I would like to become a better photographer. I'm working on that. "
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Working
Photographer
Better
" I have lived in public as a somewhat recognizable person since I was a teenager. Emails I answer end up posted on sites; pictures of me and someone I just met, taken by a cellphone, literally number in the thousands and are easily accessed. "
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" You can pass all the gun legislation you want. None of it will make me feel any more or less safe than I do right at this moment. "
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Moment
" 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. "
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" 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. "
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Think
Place
" There's no rule that you have to like Henry Rollins the musician or the actor. "
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" I still have dreams about CBGB's. I still miss the place. "
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Place
Still
About
" 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. "
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Music
Long
Electricity
" When people make my country look bad, I can't stand it. "
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People
" 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. "
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