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" I like boring black and white films with subtitles. I'm basically a drip. "
Henry Rollins
Boring
Black And White
Black
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" I'm not harmful, just introspective. You can probably think I'm weird, but it's not harmful weird. "
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You
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" 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
" I try to get myself up and moving as early as possible. Optimum is to be on the treadmill while it is still dark outside. "
Henry Rollins
Up
Try
Dark
" It's why real men just go out in the woods and howl. I must do it and get paid. "
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Go
Just
Men
" At times, I feel America is something that I can actually put my arms around, more than a land mass and a Constitution, something far more containable and understandable. I don't exactly know what it is, but at these times I feel completely woven into it. "
Henry Rollins
America
Feel
Constitution
" We city dwellers, we residents of Los Angeles and the surrounding areas, are for the most part urbanized to some extent. We know deadlines, start times and traffic. "
Henry Rollins
Los Angeles
Know
Start
" I need to do things on my own, need to be left alone. "
Henry Rollins
Need
My Own
Left
" When you're kept out of the adult world, it's a blessing in disguise. "
Henry Rollins
Out
You
Disguise
" I try to be well informed. I don't know how well I do all the time, but I try nonetheless. "
Henry Rollins
Try
Well
Informed
" I've never heard Daft Punk; I've never heard a track of theirs in my life. They're the two guys with motorcycle helmets on? "
Henry Rollins
Never
Two
Life
" Rush Limbaugh makes money getting simpleminded people to feel good about their intellectually undernourished brain spasms. He's very good at it, and I scarcely believe a fraction of what he says. "
Henry Rollins
People
Money
Good
" 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. "
Henry Rollins
Making Money
Money
Time
" Rock is ironic in that, up to a certain point, you can get better and better at it if you don't mind possibly looking more and more ridiculous. "
Henry Rollins
You
Rock
More
" Seasonal change in Los Angeles is often a very subtle thing. It's not as if we finally stop having to shovel the snow out of our driveways and can put our parkas back in the closet. "
Henry Rollins
Stop
Snow
Los Angeles
" I have never experienced anything like walking out onto the stage of an oversold venue and, before the first note is struck, realizing that there is not going to be enough oxygen for all of us. "
Henry Rollins
Walking
Us
Stage
" Edward Snowden, who worked for Booz Allen Hamilton, professes to have had access to whatever he wanted to know about anyone's anything. If he's telling the truth, why does he have such permeability without any government oversight? Is that OK with you? "
Henry Rollins
You
Government
Know
" Between the Dinosaur Jr. albums and his recent solo albums, 'Several Shades of Why' and 'Heavy Blanket,' J Mascis is emerging as one of the last men from all that '80s indie madness, still writing songs that you want to listen to over and over. "
Henry Rollins
Writing
You
Men
" The opportunity to write for the 'L.A. Weekly' has been one of the better breaks that has come my way in a long time. "
Henry Rollins
Better
Time
Opportunity
" Castle Face Records, run by The Oh Sees main man, Johnny Dwyer is always worth checking in with. "
Henry Rollins
Always
Man
Run
" I was very lucky to have had the opportunity to tour with the Beastie Boys and watched almost every set they played on all those dates. Why not? You do your set and then you get to see the Beasties play? Best deal in town. "
Henry Rollins
Play
See
You
" There are records that, in my opinion, only reach their full potential when the listener is disoriented. "
Henry Rollins
Records
Only
Opinion
" I think Naomi Klein was very astute with her book 'Shock Doctrine.' We make money on disaster. "
Henry Rollins
Her
Shock
Think
" I urge you to read the Occupy Manifesto, written by the New York City General Assembly. It is unavoidably clear. This is not directionless action. If it were, the media would have moved on. "
Henry Rollins
City
Media
New
" Pride is a thing that I have tried to abandon completely. Try as I might, pride still creeps into many of the things I do. "
Henry Rollins
Things
Many
Pride
" For me, returning to Los Angeles annihilates the memories of where I have just been with an astonishing speed. "
Henry Rollins
Speed
Memories
Just
" A lot of Americans don't have a passport, never will have a passport. Not only will they not travel, they don't want to travel. "
Henry Rollins
Will
Lot
Never
" When you hear about what someone else is going through, and you are unable to distance yourself from it or in any way muzzle your empathy and are inspired to actually do something, these are moments to learn from. "
Henry Rollins
Yourself
Empathy
Learn
" Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good. "
Henry Rollins
Hurts
Truth
Sometimes
" If I'm in L.A. for longer than 20 days, I'm looking for work, because I don't do vacations. "
Henry Rollins
Work
Because
Than
" 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. "
Henry Rollins
Perceive
Look
Down