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" It's not lost on me that everyone dies, but some people have a kind of immortality about them, and you can't imagine that they will ever be gone. "
Henry Rollins
Some People
Me
Lost
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" So, one way or another, I found myself in a few movies. I take it seriously when I'm on the set, but I don't take myself seriously as an actor. "
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" Republicans just can't help themselves. They get in front of a live microphone and within a few sentences are rocketing down the swiftest and most direct route to the all-you-can-eat comedian-and-talk-show-host buffet. "
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" Motivation has always been a fascinating factor when considering a touring artist, especially when the years stack up. What keeps one out there year after year? "
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" I think a lot of Americans have never been all that hungry. They've never had war on their shore, and they've never suffered the way other cultures have suffered. I'm not saying we should go suffer. Not at all. I'm saying we should be more aware of how other cultures exist. "
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" I'm not in a position where I get to pick and choose roles. I usually go on auditions in long lines and embarrass myself in front of casting directors, and with a lump in my throat and my ears burning, I walk past reception and smirking actors as I go to the parking garage and go back on the highway. "
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" When you are young, there is so much ahead of you, it's like the Saharan desert. You can't even see across it. "
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" And I laugh at myself when I screw things up, which happens all the time. "
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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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Day
Two
" I urge you to read the Occupy Manifesto, written by the New York City General Assembly. It is unavoidably clear. This is not directionless action. If it were, the media would have moved on. "
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" The only difference between me and others is that they think they can change something with cute little poems, nice cards or embracing trees and being nice to little lapdogs. "
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Me
Think
" 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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Service
Perfect
" To hate is to show you still care, who needs that, focus on what's really important. "
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Hate
Focus
" Too bad that Paul Ryan confessed to being a fan of Rage Against The Machine. By doing so, he not only begged for a bucketing by many of their fans but actually got one from the band's guitar player, Tom Morello. "
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Band
Doing
" I wonder how Colin Powell sleeps at night. I would like to have a word with him because he lied. He lied. He lied to me. He lied to my face through the camera at the U.N. "
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Wonder
Him
Camera
" Change is hard, but change is good. "
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Hard
Good
Change
" You must never lower yourself to being a person you don't like. "
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" I don't want to fail the audience. I don't want to let them down. "
Henry Rollins
Fail
Down
Audience
" 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. "
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Life
Acceptance
Failure
" I think Naomi Klein was very astute with her book 'Shock Doctrine.' We make money on disaster. "
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Her
Shock
Think
" 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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City
Experience
New
" It is amazing to hear grown-up people rationalize homophobia and discrimination. The lengths they go to trying to prove their points take reason to its breaking point. "
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Trying
Amazing
Discrimination
" Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on. "
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Realize
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" Canadians are often a friendly bunch. "
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Often
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" Some music really does suck! "
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Music
Suck
" I don't cuss in songs. It's too easy. "
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Too
Cuss
" 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. "
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Lost
Song
Joy
" As a young person, I wanted everyone to agree with me. "
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" Early spring is the time for vigorous change, a preparation for the heat-driven oppression that is to come. "
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Early
" Those who seek to profit by division don't stand a chance. "
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" I'm not exactly ambitious as much as I have a very good realization of what I am and what I am capable of. "
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