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" I think, to a great degree, we humans still divide ourselves into two species, even though we are monotypic. There are males and females. We see them as different and not equal. "

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" I hate painting with a broad brush, but I think the birther thing, at its root, is racist. The guy was born in Hawaii. A black guy is president. It's cool. Get over it. Just deal with it. There's nothing you could show these birther people that would shut them up. "

Henry Rollins

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" Guns are part of the American identity. "

" I get along with Australians really well. Everyone's usually really cool, and it's always a drag to leave. "

" Whenever any great song or album gets lost in the ether, someone is deprived of the joy of hearing it, and the great effort of those who created and recorded the work is damaged. "

" Now, if someone wants to spit on me, I just roll up the window of my BMW 540i. "

Henry Rollins

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" And I laugh at myself when I screw things up, which happens all the time. "

" In the summer of '84, you just couldn't escape the Born in the USA record. "

" Being unique is never easy, and often, by the time culture catches up with you, there are only a few people who notice. "

" I'm not a very good writer. I'm working at it. "

" I know I was a generic dysfunctional child, but I think a lot of people are. "

" You could split hairs and bring up words like 'doo-wop' and terms like 'soul' or 'R&B', but I think pop music is what you want it to be - that's why it's pop. "

" I wonder if it is Australia's great distance from more populated land masses that allows its inhabitants to be left to their own devices, to be incredibly creative and, at times, to be wonderfully weird. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I mean Black Flag happened. I was lucky. I don't think I could have put together something with one percent of that oomph on my own. "

" I don't believe it mattered to Timothy McVeigh who was president or who his congressional representative was when he blew up the Murrah Building in 1995. "

Henry Rollins

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Who

" I'm most comfortable on stage. "

" When I read that Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 had disappeared - a state-of-the-art Boeing 777, said to be an incredibly safe way to travel - I waited patiently for the chance to learn what happened. "

" I'm mellower now, I'm over 50. But I don't think I'm too mellow. I'm still angry at a lot of things. "

" Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn't worth the time and effort. "

" A country that has been through as much as Vietnam has to have some crazy music somewhere. "

" I think Naomi Klein was very astute with her book 'Shock Doctrine.' We make money on disaster. "

" I always start tours with a great deal of anticipation. "

" I'm most in my element on tour, with a gig that day, like today. I'm on the road where I am supposed to be. I will be where I'm supposed to be at nighttime, on stage, in front of people, doing my thing. "

" I love capitalism. It rewards me for being brave - it awards me for being innovative and thinking out of the box. "

" With a book, there's no volume to turn up. You're very naked with a book. "

Henry Rollins

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" The only thing about sanctions is that, like a lot of drone strikes, there are countless unintended victims. Cutting off aid to Uganda only increases the pain there. "

Henry Rollins

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Uganda

" Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own. "

" I still have dreams about CBGB's. I still miss the place. "

" 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. "