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" I am afforded a bit of easy wonderment in relative comfort as to how humans have lasted so long. Climate- and geography-wise, the planet seems to have little use for us. "
Henry Rollins
Easy
Planet
I Am
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" It's hard to get people at a record company to talk about music. They don't seem to want to talk about music, it's all marketing, and that's part of a record, you gotta get it out there, people have gotta hear it, but you could do it in a way that's not repulsive. "
Henry Rollins
Music
Talk
Want
" I never had any interest in being involved with the Boy Scouts. "
Henry Rollins
Never
Being
Boy
" 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
" 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
" To anger female voters in America is to tread on the tiger's tail. Women turn out in huge numbers, and they are well aware of how their bodies work and what they need. "
Henry Rollins
America
Anger
Tiger
" Most Americans are very cool people. "
Henry Rollins
Cool People
Cool
Very
" 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
" Sleep is for squares. "
Henry Rollins
Squares
Sleep
" I can deal with people who watch me on stage but I am not good in communicating with people any other way than through my work. "
Henry Rollins
Work
Good
I Am
" 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.' "
Henry Rollins
People
Best
Compliment
" I need to do things on my own, need to be left alone. "
Henry Rollins
Need
My Own
Left
" People like Jefferson, Lincoln, Susan B. Anthony and M. L. K. are larger than life to me. I find myself staring at photographs of Lincoln almost in disbelief that he was a man who walked the earth and not merely some fiction writer's creation. "
Henry Rollins
Man
Myself
People
" It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew. "
Henry Rollins
Knew
Know
Sad
" 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
" Lou Reed's music has been in the lives of millions of people all over the world for decades. He had a truly universal presence and was respected by musicians across all genres. "
Henry Rollins
Over
Musicians
Music
" One of the nice things about a favorite pop song is that it's an unconditional truce on judgment and musical snobbery. You like the song because you just do, and there need not be any further criticism. "
Henry Rollins
You
Criticism
Nice
" One of the most prevalent and undermentioned genres of music is what is known as noise. You can find it all over the world happening in basements, small venues and even some festivals. Often blown off or belittled by critics, the form for the most part goes unheard and unnoticed. "
Henry Rollins
Small
World
You
" I want to learn more about the world. It makes me want to get up and go. "
Henry Rollins
Learn
Me
More
" Life is weird, great and dangerous. "
Henry Rollins
Weird
Life
Great
" Now and then, someone is able to look at an empty space, conclude it would be a great place to start a revolution, and bravely go forward. "
Henry Rollins
Revolution
Place
Start
" Every year, August lashes out in volcanic fury, rising with the din of morning traffic, its great metallic wings smashing against the ground, heating the air with ever-increasing intensity. "
Henry Rollins
Great
Morning
Traffic
" Kids need parents who love and support them unconditionally, full stop. "
Henry Rollins
Parents
Kids
Stop
" I've made some great mistakes in my life, but, you know, they were honest mistakes. "
Henry Rollins
My Life
Great
Know
" 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. "
Henry Rollins
You
Know
Fire
" Think about it: No matter who you are, the past plays a large part in your life. I am all about living in the present as best as I can. Try as I might, there is only so much I am able to achieve on this front. "
Henry Rollins
Life
Past
Think
" August used to be a sad month for me. As the days went on, the thought of school starting weighed heavily upon my young frame. That, coupled with the oppressive heat and humidity of my native Washington, D.C., only seemed to heighten the misery. "
Henry Rollins
Thought
Me
Young
" 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. "
Henry Rollins
See
Think
Equal
" As a young person, I was on the road playing music, so I was getting new environments shoved in my face whether I wanted them or not. "
Henry Rollins
Face
Road
Person
" Miles Davis would have this lineup of all these amazing musicians and one day would just say, 'We're done.' After tons of great records and tickets sold, he said, 'Now I'm going to grow my hair out and play my horn through a wah-wah pedal.' Rather than play it safe, he went on. "
Henry Rollins
Amazing
Musicians
Hair
" I like boring black and white films with subtitles. I'm basically a drip. "
Henry Rollins
Boring
Black And White
Black