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" I have been an XL fan of Devo since I was in high school in the 1970s. Their records only sound better with time. "
Henry Rollins
High School
Better
School
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" Never once have I thought that Social Security would be something that would ever be available to me. "
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" One of the odd enjoyments in life is to be alone in a room full of people. To have them there as unknowing human filler in your wide shot. "
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" Rock n' roll unchained a nation and revolutionized radio and the record industry, not to mention the motion picture business. "
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" I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things. "
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" I have a lot of compact discs. I need them for radio play and convenience. Many bands and artists I am a fan of don't always release their work on vinyl, so I take what they feel like giving me. "
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" I never thought I was right for TV or that TV was right for me. "
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" It's why real men just go out in the woods and howl. I must do it and get paid. "
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" To our enemies all over the world who plan America's demise, please take my advice. Give up now. No matter what, you will lose. You will lose it all. "
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" 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. "
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" 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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" I thought I was gonna be in the minimum-wage working world all my life. "
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" But I have a good life. I enjoy what I do. I am married to work. "
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" I'm not exactly ambitious as much as I have a very good realization of what I am and what I am capable of. "
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" I would like to become a better photographer. I'm working on that. "
Henry Rollins
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" I love being a storyteller. I love telling stories. "
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Love
" As a young person, I wanted everyone to agree with me. "
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" My first introduction to African music was by my mother, who bought the 'Pata Pata' album by the great Miriam Makeba when it came out. Now that is an album. What a voice. "
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Music
" I think Perry Ferrell put independent music on a very good path with Lollapalooza. "
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Path
Good
Independent
" If you listen to 'The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,' by Gil Scott-Heron, that album is dripping with rage. "
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Will
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" Youths write me and tell me that their band will go nowhere because of all the bad bands in the world. I tell them there has always been awful music and that no great band ever wasted any time complaining, they just got it done. Their ropey ranting is just a way to get out of the hard work of making music that will do some lasting damage. "
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Work
Time
" I think it is incumbent on anyone who can to lift human dignity to the highest possible levels, maintaining one's own and helping to raise that of others. "
Henry Rollins
Think
Lift
Own
" 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
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Myself
People
" People will remember that the Tea Party was co-opted and funded by billion-dollar corporations, and that it was supported by Fox News and other outlets with the same vigor with which they attempt to denigrate the Occupy protesters. "
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Remember
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" As so much music is listened to via MP3 download, many will never experience the joy of analog playback, and for them, I feel sorry. They are missing out. "
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Feel
" The public library system of the United States is worth preserving. "
Henry Rollins
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" If you think about it, every single species is endangered. Homo sapiens at the front of the line, mosquitoes and lawyers at the back. "
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Line
Lawyers
Back
" I don't want to pass through life like a smooth plane ride. "
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" August in sub-Saharan Los Angeles is one of the great and awful tests of one's endurance, sanity and stamina. "
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" I don't want to fail the audience. I don't want to let them down. "
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Down
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" Someone like Ashlee Simpson, she lip-synchs on 'Saturday Night Live,' gets totally called out la Milli Vanilli, and no one really cares that much. It doesn't make me hate Ashlee; she's just taking instructions. "
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She
Saturday
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