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" Juan Williams is a very sharp guy. "
Henry Rollins
Guy
Williams
Very
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" I'm a big fan of the American Tapes label. But that's very hard to keep a grip on that because you blink your eyes and they've released three records, all of which are limited edition, all sold at one show. So you have to follow in drips and drops on eBay, which I do. "
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Three
Hard
Eyes
" Technically speaking, there is no music whatsoever on a CD. Lots of information, but no music. "
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Speaking
" August brings into sharp focus and a furious boil everything I've been listening to in the late spring and summer. "
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Spring
Summer
Listening
" I know I was a generic dysfunctional child, but I think a lot of people are. "
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Lot
Generic
Child
" 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. "
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You
Yourself
Out
" Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good. "
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Hurts
Truth
Sometimes
" America sold VX nerve gas and anthrax to Iraq for years, even after the Halabja gas attack, which killed thousands of Kurds. "
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Gas
Attack
America
" I've been on 'Jay Leno,' and everyone likes Jay, but being on that show is a really boring afternoon. I sincerely like Jay, but I wouldn't want his job, because I'd have to interview Kathy Ireland, and there's nothing there I'd want to know. "
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Know
Nothing
Job
" When a band becomes as truly iconic as the Velvet Underground, there will often be a box set released, overburdened with mediocre material that dilutes what was fine left on its own. "
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Box
Band
Left
" I'm mellower now, I'm over 50. But I don't think I'm too mellow. I'm still angry at a lot of things. "
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Things
Angry
Now
" Live music is the cure for what ails ya. "
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Live
Music
Ya
" I am on until I am dead, like a light bulb. "
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Light Bulb
Am
Dead
" For a long time, when I was very young, I went to go see arena rock bands. I was 16, and it was all I could get in to see, legally. And I saw Led Zeppelin and Ted Nugent and Van Halen and all that. "
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Young
Long
Long Time
" At times, I feel America is something that I can actually put my arms around, more than a land mass and a Constitution, something far more containable and understandable. I don't exactly know what it is, but at these times I feel completely woven into it. "
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America
Feel
Constitution
" With a book, there's no volume to turn up. You're very naked with a book. "
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Up
Book
Naked
" All my big heroes are literary, writers. "
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Heroes
Writers
Big
" A lot of Americans don't have a passport, never will have a passport. Not only will they not travel, they don't want to travel. "
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Will
Lot
Never
" In Israel, there's a lot to learn from anyone, because to live there you've got to deal with the truth. Things happen real fast. Your day goes from cool to catastrophic in one second. Israelis know that the cafe you're in could blow up, or the shopping mall, and they rock that. "
Henry Rollins
Cool
Shopping
Truth
" Fish is the only kind of respirating thing that I consume. Everything else I don't want any part of. "
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Else
Only
Kind
" 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. "
Henry Rollins
Political
Point
Trying
" 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. "
Henry Rollins
Way
Seriously
Myself
" I don't want to fail the audience. I don't want to let them down. "
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Fail
Down
Audience
" In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move. "
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Plot
Winter
Spring
" I always start tours with a great deal of anticipation. "
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Great
Always
Anticipation
" Those who seek to profit by division don't stand a chance. "
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Division
Seek
Stand
" For many, an album is no longer a considerable feat of an artist but just sounds to be half-listened to while one is halfheartedly engaged in something else. "
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Something
Just
Artist
" You must never lower yourself to being a person you don't like. "
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You
Like
Must
" Weakness is what brings ignorance, cheapness, racism, homophobia, desperation, cruelty, brutality, all these things that will keep a society chained to the ground, one foot nailed to the floor. "
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Society
Racism
Ignorance
" 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. "
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Confidence
Time
Me
" My first visit to West Berlin was in February 1983. The drive through East Berlin, the fact that West Berlin was surrounded by a wall that was more than 100 miles long - the absurdity and intensity of it really knocked me out. "
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Me
More
Absurdity