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" I've been in Iraq, and it never occurred to me to go, 'Hey, this war is bogus,' to some guy who's 24 hours a day trying not to get shot at or blown up. "
Henry Rollins
War
Go
Day
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" In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move. "
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Plot
Winter
Spring
" If it's a man's world, as they say, then men, your world is a poorly run carnage fest. "
Henry Rollins
Run
They Say
World
" I'd like to talk to Arnold Schwarzenegger, 'cause I live in California and I just want to see that canned, chemical filled body in my office. "
Henry Rollins
Body
Office
Live
" 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
" When people make my country look bad, I can't stand it. "
Henry Rollins
Country
Stand
People
" I don't know if music has ever achieved anything past appealing to the people that it appeals to. If a song could stop a war, then Bob Marley and Bob Dylan songs would have stopped one or two. "
Henry Rollins
People
War
Song
" Before any American points a finger at President Putin and calls him nasty names, they should recognize that a lot of Americans agree with Putin on his stance against homosexual and transgender people. "
Henry Rollins
American
Transgender
Him
" I'm terrified of motorcycles. I've been on one a couple of times. I did not like it. "
Henry Rollins
Like
Been
Couple
" To burn a CDR of music you like to give as a gift to someone you wish to become closer to is a cold, moist-palmed, mouth-breathing bummer. "
Henry Rollins
Burn
You
Wish
" I'm a professional food eater. "
Henry Rollins
Food
Eater
Professional
" If some band sucks, you're going to have to find out about it for yourself, because I don't have the interest in issuing warnings. "
Henry Rollins
You
Yourself
Out
" But I have a good life. I enjoy what I do. I am married to work. "
Henry Rollins
Good Life
Work
Life
" I once asked Ozzy Osbourne, truly one of my favorite people in the world, if he was cool with singing Black Sabbath songs year after year, whether he was performing with Black Sabbath or out on a solo tour. He said it was great. "
Henry Rollins
World
Great
Cool
" I think young people should travel and travel often to other countries... like I do. "
Henry Rollins
Travel
People
Like
" People like Jefferson, Lincoln, Susan B. Anthony and M. L. K. are larger than life to me. I find myself staring at photographs of Lincoln almost in disbelief that he was a man who walked the earth and not merely some fiction writer's creation. "
Henry Rollins
Man
Myself
People
" Sometimes when you meet a musician you are a fan of, and he or she isn't the friendliest person, you walk away from the experience wondering if you will ever be able to listen to their music again. "
Henry Rollins
Walk
Meet
Experience
" I have come to regard November as the older, harder man's October. I appreciate the early darkness and cooler temperatures. It puts my mind in a different place than October. It is a month for a quieter, slightly more subdued celebration of summer's death as winter tightens its grip. "
Henry Rollins
October
Mind
Darkness
" Watching a documentary with people hacking their way through some polar wasteland is merely a visual. Actually trying to deal with cold that can literally kill you is quite a different thing. "
Henry Rollins
People
Cold
Hacking
" Of course same sex marriage is constitutional! The right to be yourself, to pursue life, liberty, and property, is protected several ways over several amendments. John Boehner should know this. "
Henry Rollins
Yourself
Marriage
Life
" When you start to doubt yourself the real world will eat you alive. "
Henry Rollins
Eat
Doubt
Yourself
" 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. "
Henry Rollins
Writing
You
Men
" To this day, my haircut is the number two clippers, which I apply to myself every month. "
Henry Rollins
Haircut
Day
Two
" Someone like Ashlee Simpson, she lip-synchs on 'Saturday Night Live,' gets totally called out la Milli Vanilli, and no one really cares that much. It doesn't make me hate Ashlee; she's just taking instructions. "
Henry Rollins
She
Saturday
Hate
" Music files and downloading have indeed changed the currency of music to a great degree. "
Henry Rollins
Great
Currency
Degree
" I never thought I was right for TV or that TV was right for me. "
Henry Rollins
TV
Never
Right
" Everyone who knows me knows that I'm a hopeless romantic who listens to love ballads and doo-wop songs all the time. "
Henry Rollins
Romantic
Me
Love
" The Wacken festival started more than 20 years ago with just a few hundred people in attendance. Tickets now sell out before the lineup is announced. "
Henry Rollins
Attendance
Started
People
" You want to meet a bunch of really friendly people? Go to a Slayer concert. There'll be some real psychos there, but most of those people will take care of each other. "
Henry Rollins
Take Care
Care
You
" Certainly, there are huge, multiplatinum bands whose singers command their audience's attention. Sadly, much of the time they have little to say. "
Henry Rollins
Time
Say
Attention
" I am not immune to the lure of a signed record, flier or set list. The fact that your music heroes potentially had, in their own hands, the record you now have in yours is kind of cool. When the musician has departed, it can give the thing a unique power. "
Henry Rollins
Cool
Unique
I Am