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" I don't want to pass through life like a smooth plane ride. "
Henry Rollins
Want
Through
Smooth
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" I find it takes a lot of strength to endure myself. "
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" I get letters from young people telling me that they're broke and download my albums for free. They ask me what I think about that. I now have a standard line. I tell them, 'I would rather be heard than paid.' "
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Free
Me
" I can't remember that I ever had just a minute of stage fright. "
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Stage Fright
Remember
" I have always identified with Joan Didion's depiction of Los Angeles and Southern California, ever since reading 'Play It As It Lays,' 'Slouching Towards Bethlehem' and 'The White Album.' "
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Reading
White
" Guns are part of the American identity. "
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Part
Guns
" Barack Obama's administration responded to the Haitian crisis within 24 hours. Here comes the soldiers, here comes the food, go go go... Rush Limbaugh told his multi-millions of listeners that Obama only did that to gain favour with black people in America. This is the kind of idiocy that I have to deal with in my country. "
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Black
Country
America
" What does New York sound like? For me, the Charlie Parker at the Royal Roost recordings on the Savoy label are the total embodiment of the New York music experience. "
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Royal
Experience
" Football is at least as 'gay' as rugby, Greco-Roman wrestling and the film '300.' "
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Film
Gay
Rugby
" The Bad Seeds are a band I will travel a great distance to see whenever possible. "
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Bad
Distance
Travel
" Kids need parents who love and support them unconditionally, full stop. "
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Parents
Kids
Stop
" Music files and downloading have indeed changed the currency of music to a great degree. "
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Great
Currency
Degree
" I guess, topic to topic, you could consider me a left-leaning person. "
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Topic
Guess
Person
" 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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Romantic
Memories
Music
" I like boring black and white films with subtitles. I'm basically a drip. "
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Boring
Black And White
Black
" I'm 36 and if I met a woman of my own age and married her, I'd also be marrying her former life, her past. It might be OK for some people - I don't want to judge it or anything - but it's not for me. It would destroy my creativity. "
Henry Rollins
Woman
Me
Creativity
" Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated. "
Henry Rollins
Hope
Person
Before
" I think Naomi Klein was very astute with her book 'Shock Doctrine.' We make money on disaster. "
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Her
Shock
Think
" If there is one set of laws, one Constitution for every citizen, its protections hopefully applied equally to all, then why do the results seem to differ so radically? What do you call that? Look around - you're living in it. "
Henry Rollins
Living
Look
Constitution
" I believe that contentment or any sustained period of joy that doesn't inspire thought that leads to action almost immediately is useless. "
Henry Rollins
Action
Joy
Thought
" I wonder what it's like to be from a state that is spread across a few islands way out in the Pacific Ocean, only added to the United States in 1959. Not only that but to be the birthplace of America's first black president? Pretty cool, I bet. "
Henry Rollins
Cool
Wonder
Ocean
" My mother, a very eclectic listener, had the first Doors album and gave it to me when I expressed interest in the band. It was one of the first records I ever had. As the years passed, the babysitters who used to look after me would bring their Doors albums to the apartment, and that's how I got to hear their later work. "
Henry Rollins
Mother
Me
Band
" If you want to believe that humans walked with dinosaurs and the planet is a few thousand years old, that is absolutely fine with me. If you want to teach this to your kids, I don't care. If states want to teach creationism in their schools, there is nothing I can do about it, so I don't sweat it. "
Henry Rollins
Sweat
You
Nothing
" 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
" 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. "
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Children
Parents
Lose
" When people make my country look bad, I can't stand it. "
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Country
Stand
People
" The world's a better place since I chose music. "
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Better
Music
Place
" I never thought I was right for TV or that TV was right for me. "
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TV
Never
Right
" Having an identity is one thing. Being born into an identity is quite a different matter. "
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Being
Different
Identity
" I think more tolerance, more people having more access to a chance to be literate, and a chance to stay healthy makes for a more peaceful planet. "
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Think
Chance
Healthy
" I think young people should travel and travel often to other countries... like I do. "
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Travel
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