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" I can't remember that I ever had just a minute of stage fright. "
Henry Rollins
Minute
Stage Fright
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" I'm actually on the Twitter like all those crazy young kids are, and if I'm going to do an in-store appearance or I post something on my website, I tweet these followers, a word I don't like so much, and over 50,000 people go, like, 'Okay, I got it.' "
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" When you are young, there is so much ahead of you, it's like the Saharan desert. You can't even see across it. "
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" I like boring black and white films with subtitles. I'm basically a drip. "
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" 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. "
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Criticism
Nice
" We humans are hard to deal with. We are a loud, complex and demanding bunch. Often, we are best dealt with from a safe distance and for only brief periods of time. This could be why a lot of marriages fail. "
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" I think a lot of Americans have never been all that hungry. They've never had war on their shore, and they've never suffered the way other cultures have suffered. I'm not saying we should go suffer. Not at all. I'm saying we should be more aware of how other cultures exist. "
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" I'd love to talk to Janeane Garafalo or Randi Rhodes or Stephanie Miller from Air America. I'm an Air American junkie; I listen to them every day. "
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Love
" When you start to doubt yourself the real world will eat you alive. "
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Eat
Doubt
Yourself
" You don't have to twist my arm to work. "
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Arm
You
Work
" I have come to the conclusion that it's a waste of time to have too much pride in anything. Perhaps it's good to have a sense of duty, a jealous zeal to protect or improve, but pride ultimately is only that which stands vulnerable to offense and degradation. "
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Pride
Too Much
Good
" I'm of the opinion that the Democrats have the ideas I agree with more often than not. Reenergizing the middle class and giving people a break. "
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Opinion
Giving
Class
" Maybe I'm ego-tripping, but I don't find myself a particularly horrible person, so I don't think I need to hold back anything I think or feel. "
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Find
Need
Think
" The truth is an anti-war statement in itself. "
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Truth Is
Anti-War
Statement
" George Zimmerman is a foot soldier in a rapidly privatizing country. He is a new centurion of 21st-century America. Law enforcement is tied down by the strictures of, well, the law. There is only 'so much they can do' to take care of the 'problem.' "
Henry Rollins
Law
Take Care
Problem
" I always start tours with a great deal of anticipation. "
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Great
Always
Anticipation
" 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. "
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My Life
Classmates
Fear
" My first visit to West Berlin was in February 1983. The drive through East Berlin, the fact that West Berlin was surrounded by a wall that was more than 100 miles long - the absurdity and intensity of it really knocked me out. "
Henry Rollins
Me
More
Absurdity
" I'm a professional food eater. "
Henry Rollins
Food
Eater
Professional
" I think it's fantastic when the young enrage their elders. I really do believe that if it's too loud, you are indeed too old, and that if it has been standing for too long, it needs a thorough inspection. "
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You
Young
Believe
" It's one thing to buy a copy of 'Atlas Shrugged.' You actually have to read it to get anything out of it. "
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You
Anything
Buy
" 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. "
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Home
Weird
Life
" The only difference between me and others is that they think they can change something with cute little poems, nice cards or embracing trees and being nice to little lapdogs. "
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Cute
Me
Think
" And I laugh at myself when I screw things up, which happens all the time. "
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Myself
Happens
Laugh
" Michele Bachmann is always a great person to go to for an opinion about anything. She has a very active and interesting mind. "
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Mind
She
Opinion
" You could split hairs and bring up words like 'doo-wop' and terms like 'soul' or 'R&B', but I think pop music is what you want it to be - that's why it's pop. "
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Soul
You
Words
" Contemporary bands often will do tour-only releases pressed and sold only in Australia. Crikey! "
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Bands
Australia
Will
" Ramones music has a Pavlovian effect on me - the song starts, and the world blurs around the sound. "
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Sound
Effect
World
" Scott Asheton was a brilliant drummer, a natural musician. "
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Natural
Brilliant
Drummer
" Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium. "
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Artist
Giving
Yourself
" 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
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