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" Like a lot of inwardly drawn young people, I spent a lot of time in libraries. At my high school, I often spent my lunch breaks there. "
Henry Rollins
People
High School
Time
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" Luckily for me, I genuinely like my audience. They really are a good bunch. "
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Me
Like
Audience
" I have been curious about Haiti for many years. The history of the country is as fascinating as it is turbulent. "
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Been
Years
History
" Michele Bachmann is always a great person to go to for an opinion about anything. She has a very active and interesting mind. "
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Mind
She
Opinion
" 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
" America's foreign policy lacks the backbone to do the right thing in Afghanistan - which is leave. "
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Do The Right Thing
Right
America
" Everyone who knows me knows that I'm a hopeless romantic who listens to love ballads and doo-wop songs all the time. "
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Romantic
Me
Love
" I think Naomi Klein was very astute with her book 'Shock Doctrine.' We make money on disaster. "
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Her
Shock
Think
" Music files and downloading have indeed changed the currency of music to a great degree. "
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Great
Currency
Degree
" Never once have I thought that Social Security would be something that would ever be available to me. "
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Security
Social
Thought
" I can deal with people who watch me on stage but I am not good in communicating with people any other way than through my work. "
Henry Rollins
Work
Good
I Am
" '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
" Florida is a crazy place, and I have played some of the wildest shows of my life here. "
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Florida
Crazy
Place
" In the summer of 1991, I was on the first Lollapalooza tour. Nightly, I would watch Jane's Addiction singer Perry Farrell go out in front of a sea of people and within minutes have all of them in the palm of his hand. I have never seen anything like it since. "
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People
Addiction
Watch
" August, the summer's last messenger of misery, is a hollow actor. "
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Last
Messenger
Summer
" I'd love to talk to Janeane Garafalo or Randi Rhodes or Stephanie Miller from Air America. I'm an Air American junkie; I listen to them every day. "
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America
Every Day
Love
" 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
" 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
" When people make my country look bad, I can't stand it. "
Henry Rollins
Country
Stand
People
" As a teen, I heard the second Velvet Underground album, 'White Light/White Heat,' and it was too much for my limited scope of appreciation. It was intense, but I didn't get it. "
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Appreciation
Teen
Too Much
" I think young people should travel and travel often to other countries... like I do. "
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Travel
People
Like
" Airports in major cities, like LAX, are trippy environments. It is at once a national and international gathering of those in transition: The euphoric, emerging from planes, their journey at an end, and the determined, about to depart. "
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Gathering
End
Journey
" The more I learn about Mr. Romney, the less there is to admire. "
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More
About
Admire
" Young African-American males: Stop existing. It could get you killed. "
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Get
Stop
You
" I get along with Australians really well. Everyone's usually really cool, and it's always a drag to leave. "
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Always
Leave
Get
" Sleep is for squares. "
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Squares
Sleep
" The first Van Halen album makes Johnny Rotten out to be what he really was and still is: a hairdresser. "
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Van
First
Hairdresser
" We Americans are hard on almost everything. We are hard on our vehicles, our marriages and our heroes. Mostly, however, we are hard on ourselves. "
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Everything
Our
Heroes
" Russia is tough. The history, the land, the people - brutal. "
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History
Tough
Land
" Musicians should not play music. Music should play musicians. "
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Play Music
Play
Musicians