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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. "

Henry Rollins

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People

American

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" 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. "

" I never thought about getting any tattoos removed. "

" Scott Asheton was a brilliant drummer, a natural musician. "

" I have always maintained that Iggy Pop is the Heavyweight Champion of Rock & Roll. "

" 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'm not interested in censorship. I like the First Amendment very much. "

" Early spring is the time for vigorous change, a preparation for the heat-driven oppression that is to come. "

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

" 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. "

" In my many trips to South Africa, I have met and spoken to a lot of people there, and they all seem to find apartheid as repellent as you would. "

" I think self-reliance and self-responsibility and self-accountability will help you as a parent, a teacher, as a citizen as a friend. "

" I'd like to talk to Sean Hannity in a controlled environment and say, 'O.K., you can't interrupt and jump up and down like a professional wrestler.' "

" To me, getting muscular was the first thing I ever achieved by working at it, and it was a game changer for me, because it was the first time I ever had confidence. "

Henry Rollins

Confidence

Time

" 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

Try

Dark

" I want to learn more about the world. It makes me want to get up and go. "

Henry Rollins

Learn

" Smart people make good choices. They dig science and say 'no' to the invasion of sovereign nations for the pleasure of corporations. "

" It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew. "

" Fish is the only kind of respirating thing that I consume. Everything else I don't want any part of. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Sarah Palin embarrasses herself almost immediately upon opening her mouth to speak or upon moving her fingers to send messages to her dull flock. "

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

" Most poets are elitist dregs more concerned with proving their skill with a dictionary than communicating ideas with impact. "

" 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. "

" Most of the people who call me a sellout were 7 when I was down face-first in the punk trenches. "

Henry Rollins

People

Down

" I think it's important to have some documentation of the past. "

" I have had a number of less-than-enviable moments in my life when dealing with other people. I won't attempt to blunt that by saying I am not the only one. "