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" I take the work seriously, just not myself in it. "
Henry Rollins
Seriously
Work
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" 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. "
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" You might as well enjoy the day - you never know when and how painfully it could all end. "
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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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" I don't think you'll ever have a perfect world because we humans are prone to error, and so we're always in search of an upgrade. "
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" To this day, my haircut is the number two clippers, which I apply to myself every month. "
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" I plan to be a part of Haiti's reconstruction and future. "
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" If I had to live my life in anticipation of what others thought of me, little would get done. "
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" Imagine a 15-year-old kid saying, 'I have two moms - it's cool.' I don't fear that at all. "
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" Rarely do I do film press because I'm so low on the food chain of the movie, and for me it's just this thing I did for four weeks before the next tour started. "
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" This is my own little rock theory: In my mind, Nirvana slayed the hair bands. They shot the top off the poodles. "
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" 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. "
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" If people are being upstanding citizens of the Republic, then you have to widen the net to incarcerate them. This explains why America's prisons are full of nonviolent offenders - a perfect example of American exceptionalism. "
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" The kid who throws his spaghetti from the high chair onto his father's face, he's pushing back. He's sticking it to the man as he sees it. I like that. So that is punk. "
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" America's foreign policy lacks the backbone to do the right thing in Afghanistan - which is leave. "
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" Being in New York is an almost overwhelming experience. While Washington, D.C., is my favorite American city, I regard New York City as the most amazing city in the world. No other comes close. It is an incredible, inexhaustible engine. "
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" 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. "
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" To see change in your own area code is very powerful. There's a little orphanage down the street from my company, and we donate $1 from the sale of each CD we sell to the orphanage. "
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" I don't know if music has ever achieved anything past appealing to the people that it appeals to. If a song could stop a war, then Bob Marley and Bob Dylan songs would have stopped one or two. "
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War
Song
" You need a little bit of insanity to do great things. "
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Insanity
Great Things
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" Those who seek to profit by division don't stand a chance. "
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" When you're going into an employment environment that looks pretty scary, it is easy to lose your moral compass, your decency, your sense of civility and your sense of community. "
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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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" 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. "
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