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" It is just that I don't want a wife and I don't want kids. "
Henry Rollins
Just
Wife
Kids
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" I think marriage is a boring and fault-ridden contractual obligation. "
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" I'm most comfortable on stage. "
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" August used to be a sad month for me. As the days went on, the thought of school starting weighed heavily upon my young frame. That, coupled with the oppressive heat and humidity of my native Washington, D.C., only seemed to heighten the misery. "
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" Castle Face Records, run by The Oh Sees main man, Johnny Dwyer is always worth checking in with. "
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" Young, gay and stuck in Arkansas? Sounds like a horror flick. "
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" The first Van Halen album makes Johnny Rotten out to be what he really was and still is: a hairdresser. "
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" I have lived in public as a somewhat recognizable person since I was a teenager. Emails I answer end up posted on sites; pictures of me and someone I just met, taken by a cellphone, literally number in the thousands and are easily accessed. "
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" South Sudan is one of the most hard-put places in the world. "
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Most
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" When someone asks you, 'What's punk?' my reply is, 'If you have to ask, you're never going to know.' "
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Know
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" I'm a big Germs fan; most people are. "
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People
Most
" So I'm more at home with my backpack, sleeping in a hotel room or on a bus or on an airplane, than I am necessarily on a bed. It's weird being here. It feels like I'm standing next to my real life. "
Henry Rollins
Home
Weird
Life
" I don't have a crystal ball, but I'm willing to bet one of my arms right now that as long as there's electricity, Ramones music is going to be relevant. "
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Music
Long
Electricity
" If I had to live my life in anticipation of what others thought of me, little would get done. "
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Done
Me
Thought
" I have healthy disagreements with political parties I'm not aligned with, but I don't think it should be to the point where we're cursing and trying to strangle each other. "
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Point
Trying
" The history of apartheid-era South Africa is incredibly sad and at times infuriatingly incomprehensible. "
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Africa
History
Sad
" I think young people should travel and travel often to other countries... like I do. "
Henry Rollins
Travel
People
Like
" I think self-reliance and self-responsibility and self-accountability will help you as a parent, a teacher, as a citizen as a friend. "
Henry Rollins
Teacher
Help
Friend
" To me, the real 'state of the union' is found in how Americans react to current events. "
Henry Rollins
Events
Union
Me
" In my bright, utopian future world, they will hand out college educations like cups of water at the end of the L.A. Marathon. "
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College
Future
World
" 'The Great Gatsby' is a book I have read a few times, and it seems to get heavier every time I come to visit. "
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Seems
Come
Time
" Being unique is never easy, and often, by the time culture catches up with you, there are only a few people who notice. "
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You
Easy
Time
" As long as I tell the truth I feel that nobody can touch me. "
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Feel
Truth
Touch
" The best compliment I get every year is that a band will write me and say, 'We were just on tour, and we had people coming to our show saying they had never heard us before they heard us on your show.' "
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People
Best
Compliment
" I get angry about stuff, I get very emotionally intense about stuff and that's how I get it out - with books, with the band, on my own onstage, but it's always kind of a wail. "
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Band
Always
Own
" If you listen to 'The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,' by Gil Scott-Heron, that album is dripping with rage. "
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Will
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" George Zimmerman is a foot soldier in a rapidly privatizing country. He is a new centurion of 21st-century America. Law enforcement is tied down by the strictures of, well, the law. There is only 'so much they can do' to take care of the 'problem.' "
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Law
Take Care
Problem
" Jazz music is as American as it gets, and so is the U.S. Postal Service. A Miles Davis stamp is a perfect marriage of two great American institutions. "
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Marriage
Service
Perfect
" Music to me is mankind's greatest possible achievement because look at all the good it does. "
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Look
Me
Good
" I'm actually on the Twitter like all those crazy young kids are, and if I'm going to do an in-store appearance or I post something on my website, I tweet these followers, a word I don't like so much, and over 50,000 people go, like, 'Okay, I got it.' "
Henry Rollins
Okay
Appearance
Crazy
" More and more, journalism seems to have hopped out of Truth's pocket and crept into another. "
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Out
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