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" Michele Bachmann is always a great person to go to for an opinion about anything. She has a very active and interesting mind. "
Henry Rollins
Mind
She
Opinion
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" The world's a better place since I chose music. "
Henry Rollins
Better
Music
Place
" When a young non-white male is stopped and searched at the whim of a police officer, his idea of personal space, privacy and self esteem are shattered, to say nothing of his Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment protections. The damage goes deep quickly and stays. Stop & frisk, as well as a tactic, is also an incitement. "
Henry Rollins
Deep
Space
Self
" Enough Americans saw fit to give president Obama a second term. I don't think there will be many people keeping their Romney/Ryan bumper stickers on their cars. "
Henry Rollins
Think
People
Enough
" This is my 25th year of being on stage. A lot of people who I kind of toed up to the starting line with are no longer in this position. I feel very, very lucky. "
Henry Rollins
Lucky
Feel
Kind
" With any advent in technology, any technological innovation, there is the good and the bad. "
Henry Rollins
Any
Technology
Innovation
" The Internet, the camera cellphone and the like have not only sped up the world's information uptake, but they have cheapened that which they capture. "
Henry Rollins
Up
World
Internet
" I just get things done instead of talking about getting them done. I don't go out and party. I don't smoke, drink or do drugs and I'm not married, that leaves a lot of time for my work. "
Henry Rollins
Party
Work
Time
" People will remember that the Tea Party was co-opted and funded by billion-dollar corporations, and that it was supported by Fox News and other outlets with the same vigor with which they attempt to denigrate the Occupy protesters. "
Henry Rollins
People
Remember
Tea
" I'm very boring. "
Henry Rollins
Boring
Very
" I still have dreams about CBGB's. I still miss the place. "
Henry Rollins
Place
Still
About
" Fish is the only kind of respirating thing that I consume. Everything else I don't want any part of. "
Henry Rollins
Else
Only
Kind
" I get letters from young people telling me that they're broke and download my albums for free. They ask me what I think about that. I now have a standard line. I tell them, 'I would rather be heard than paid.' "
Henry Rollins
People
Free
Me
" It's easy for me to play bad guys because it's a very linear acting. Bad guys aren't empathetic. Being a bad guy is great because you're not friendly and you don't have to do much with your face. "
Henry Rollins
Great
Face
You
" I don't hate the government. I don't think the Second Amendment is being infringed upon. "
Henry Rollins
Think
Government
Amendment
" Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on. "
Henry Rollins
Realize
Stronger
Strength
" I want to learn more about the world. It makes me want to get up and go. "
Henry Rollins
Learn
Me
More
" When you start to doubt yourself the real world will eat you alive. "
Henry Rollins
Eat
Doubt
Yourself
" I hate painting with a broad brush, but I think the birther thing, at its root, is racist. The guy was born in Hawaii. A black guy is president. It's cool. Get over it. Just deal with it. There's nothing you could show these birther people that would shut them up. "
Henry Rollins
Hate
You
Think
" The perpetrators of the actual bad stuff that does real and lasting harm to people, like leakage of industrial chemicals into water systems, seem to get not so much as a second glance; the bloviation from media pundits and think tanks creates false problems that waste time and energy debunking. "
Henry Rollins
Think
Time
Water
" Football is at least as 'gay' as rugby, Greco-Roman wrestling and the film '300.' "
Henry Rollins
Film
Gay
Rugby
" Juan Williams is a very sharp guy. "
Henry Rollins
Guy
Williams
Very
" 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
" After I left D.C. to join Black Flag, I felt I was in a band. "
Henry Rollins
Left
Flag
Black
" 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. "
Henry Rollins
Young
Long
Long Time
" 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
" To me, the real 'state of the union' is found in how Americans react to current events. "
Henry Rollins
Events
Union
Me
" 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. "
Henry Rollins
End
Up
Someone
" Barack Obama's administration responded to the Haitian crisis within 24 hours. Here comes the soldiers, here comes the food, go go go... Rush Limbaugh told his multi-millions of listeners that Obama only did that to gain favour with black people in America. This is the kind of idiocy that I have to deal with in my country. "
Henry Rollins
Black
Country
America
" 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
" When people hold you in high esteem, it's very delicate relationship. When they meet you they're putting all their chips up. It's make or break. "
Henry Rollins
High
You
Relationship