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" I love to go on stage and sing. "
Henry Rollins
Stage
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" There's tons of junk food for your mind on the Internet. You can sit there for three or 10 or 20 hours a day getting in online arguments with other people who also choose to waste their time. "
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Mind
" There is a lot to say about what Bikini Kill and other 'riot grrrl' bands were able to achieve when they first set out. They were not some momentary, convulsive, creative spasm of independent music. There was a very real, relevant point of view being expressed. "
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" Most of the people who call me a sellout were 7 when I was down face-first in the punk trenches. "
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" If you listen to the way I speak and watch the way I conduct myself - there's nothing about me that's rock n' roll. It's like, 'Hello, I'm in a rock n' roll band'. 'No, you're a narc.' "
Henry Rollins
Rock
Myself
Speak
" I think young people should travel and travel often to other countries... like I do. "
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People
Like
" For many years, my favorite director has been the Japanese giant Akira Kurosawa. "
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" Live music is the cure for what ails ya. "
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Live
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Ya
" It is amazing to hear grown-up people rationalize homophobia and discrimination. The lengths they go to trying to prove their points take reason to its breaking point. "
Henry Rollins
Trying
Amazing
Discrimination
" I'm pessimistic. I don't think that justice always gets the right person. "
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Justice
Always
Think
" Questioning anything and everything, to me, is punk rock. "
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Rock
Everything
Me
" 'Duck Dynasty' is a ridiculous show, and long may it wave. America and democracy will endure. They've seen a lot worse. "
Henry Rollins
Long
Duck
Democracy
" To me, the real 'state of the union' is found in how Americans react to current events. "
Henry Rollins
Events
Union
Me
" The perpetrators of the actual bad stuff that does real and lasting harm to people, like leakage of industrial chemicals into water systems, seem to get not so much as a second glance; the bloviation from media pundits and think tanks creates false problems that waste time and energy debunking. "
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Time
Water
" If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light, If I lose paper and ink, I will write in blood on forgotten walls. I will write always. I will capture nights all over the world and bring them to you. "
Henry Rollins
Sun
World
Walls
" It took me until my teenage years to realize that I was medicating with music. I was pushing back against my stupid school uniform, instructors who called me by my last name and my classmates, who, while friendly enough, were not at all inspiring. "
Henry Rollins
Name
Enough
Me
" Kids need parents who love and support them unconditionally, full stop. "
Henry Rollins
Parents
Kids
Stop
" August, the summer's last messenger of misery, is a hollow actor. "
Henry Rollins
Last
Messenger
Summer
" My understanding of first-degree murder is that premeditation needs to be proven. "
Henry Rollins
Needs
Understanding
Proven
" Songs sung under duress are often very powerful. "
Henry Rollins
Duress
Very
Powerful
" And I love the hate mail I get, the unsigned, misspelled letters I get telling me to go back to Russia or wherever. "
Henry Rollins
Letters
Back
Me
" 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
" We spend millions of dollars to remove pain from our lives. It's why so many people get hooked on painkillers. The body becomes addicted to painlessness. That tells you a lot. "
Henry Rollins
Spend
Why
You
" 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. "
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Cool
Wonder
Ocean
" The Wacken festival started more than 20 years ago with just a few hundred people in attendance. Tickets now sell out before the lineup is announced. "
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Attendance
Started
People
" It's not lost on me that everyone dies, but some people have a kind of immortality about them, and you can't imagine that they will ever be gone. "
Henry Rollins
Some People
Me
Lost
" Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good. "
Henry Rollins
Hurts
Truth
Sometimes
" I was happy to find out that when on tour, Dolly Parton doesn't use hotels but stays on her bus every night, to the point of having her buses shipped from Austria to Australia so she can tour the way she sees fit. I used one of her buses once - an honor. "
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She
Night
Honor
" The history of apartheid-era South Africa is incredibly sad and at times infuriatingly incomprehensible. "
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Africa
History
Sad
" I am an employment hyena. I am happy to make a meal of what the lions leave behind. "
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I Am Happy
Meal
Leave
" Pizza makes me think that anything is possible. "
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Pizza
Anything Is Possible