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" 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
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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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Perceive
Look
Down
" When you're kept out of the adult world, it's a blessing in disguise. "
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Out
You
Disguise
" While I have no empirical evidence to back this up, I bet that the number of homosexual people per thousand has not fluctuated all that much over the centuries. I do not believe the dented wisdom my father used to extol, that homosexuality was a sure sign of a civilization in decline. "
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Believe
Back
Wisdom
" I can deal with people who watch me on stage but I am not good in communicating with people any other way than through my work. "
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Work
Good
I Am
" To get a human through a life, lives of broken bones, knock-me-over-with-a-feather susceptibility to myriad viruses, and whatever else might befall someone will cost money. "
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Life
Broken
Someone
" War is very sad and small life is pathetically fragile at times. "
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Fragile
War
Very
" The blues is losing someone you love and not having enough money to immerse yourself in drink. "
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Yourself
You
Money
" 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
" I don't hate the government. I don't think the Second Amendment is being infringed upon. "
Henry Rollins
Think
Government
Amendment
" Death metal uses a lot of white face paint and black hair dye to make its point. I quite enjoy this genre for its intensity, extremism and underlying irony: You have to be alive to play it and listen to it. "
Henry Rollins
Enjoy
Death
Black
" To me, the real 'state of the union' is found in how Americans react to current events. "
Henry Rollins
Events
Union
Me
" I think it's important to have some documentation of the past. "
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Think
Past
Important
" My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud. "
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Loud
Optimism
Positive
" Juan Williams is a very sharp guy. "
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Guy
Williams
Very
" The first Van Halen album makes Johnny Rotten out to be what he really was and still is: a hairdresser. "
Henry Rollins
Van
First
Hairdresser
" One of the most insane environments I have ever spent time in is a gun range. There we are, all in a line, armed to the teeth, firing away. "
Henry Rollins
Away
Time
Teeth
" If you paid Americans a living wage, they would be able to pay for products made by Americans in America. "
Henry Rollins
You
Pay
Products
" I think marriage is a boring and fault-ridden contractual obligation. "
Henry Rollins
Boring
Obligation
Think
" Michele Bachmann is always a great person to go to for an opinion about anything. She has a very active and interesting mind. "
Henry Rollins
Mind
She
Opinion
" When I think of Mick Jagger still singing that he can't get any satisfaction in over forty years of being in the Rolling Stones, I have to conclude that he's either lying or not all that bright. "
Henry Rollins
Lying
Think
Singing
" We know that in September, we will wander through the warm winds of summer's wreckage. We will welcome summer's ghost. "
Henry Rollins
Ghost
Wander
Summer
" Castle Face Records, run by The Oh Sees main man, Johnny Dwyer is always worth checking in with. "
Henry Rollins
Always
Man
Run
" We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success. "
Henry Rollins
Life
Acceptance
Failure
" 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
" Trayvon Martin did not need to die. "
Henry Rollins
Did
Need
Martin
" For me, jazz will always be the soundtrack of the civil rights movement. "
Henry Rollins
Always
Jazz
Me
" 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. "
Henry Rollins
City
Experience
New
" 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. "
Henry Rollins
Music
Creative
Point Of View
" I'm most comfortable on stage. "
Henry Rollins
Stage
Comfortable
Most
" With a book, there's no volume to turn up. You're very naked with a book. "
Henry Rollins
Up
Book
Naked