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" One person's disaster is another person's talking point. "
Henry Rollins
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" To anger female voters in America is to tread on the tiger's tail. Women turn out in huge numbers, and they are well aware of how their bodies work and what they need. "
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" If the Constitution was a movie, the Preamble would be the trailer, the First Amendment the establishing shot, the 13th the crowd pleaser and the 14th the ultimate hero scene. "
Henry Rollins
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First Amendment
Hero
" No one should die when they're 50. "
Henry Rollins
Die
Should
" There are records that, in my opinion, only reach their full potential when the listener is disoriented. "
Henry Rollins
Records
Only
Opinion
" My unconditional sure thing is that I don't have one. "
Henry Rollins
Thing
Unconditional
Sure Thing
" When you're kept out of the adult world, it's a blessing in disguise. "
Henry Rollins
Out
You
Disguise
" 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 take the work seriously, just not myself in it. "
Henry Rollins
Seriously
Work
Myself
" Some music really does suck! "
Henry Rollins
Does
Music
Suck
" 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. "
Henry Rollins
Appreciation
Teen
Too Much
" 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
" Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on. "
Henry Rollins
Realize
Stronger
Strength
" In my many trips to South Africa, I have met and spoken to a lot of people there, and they all seem to find apartheid as repellent as you would. "
Henry Rollins
People
Africa
You
" If the death of Osama Bin Laden brings any peace to those who lost loved ones on that awful day in September 2001, that is a great thing. It is more likely, however, just a painful reminder of what was lost. "
Henry Rollins
Great
Lost
Loved
" Let's pretend my career in music is a bell. Whether you like my music or not is up to you. But you've got to admit I rang that bell pretty hard and pretty often. "
Henry Rollins
Bell
You
Hard
" Nothing moves me more than the history of the United States. "
Henry Rollins
History
Nothing
More
" Before the Civil War, the Southern states were selling a lot of cotton to England and didn't seem to mind British occupation. By and large, the Revolutionary War wasn't at all great for business. "
Henry Rollins
War
Business
Cotton
" 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
" I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine. "
Henry Rollins
Own
Like
Feeling
" The idea that any performer type is owed anything is a joke to me. "
Henry Rollins
Idea
Me
Performer
" All my big heroes are literary, writers. "
Henry Rollins
Heroes
Writers
Big
" For me, Memphis has always been a city that holds a great deal of meaning and also leads me to a lot of thinking. Besides Sun Studio, which helped put rock n' roll on the map all over the world, the legendary Stax Studio also called Memphis home. "
Henry Rollins
City
Home
Great
" My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud. "
Henry Rollins
Loud
Optimism
Positive
" 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
" The only thing worse than the Pastor Terry Jones scheduled Koran burning is the fact that he canceled the proposed event. "
Henry Rollins
Than
Only
Worse
" And I love the hate mail I get, the unsigned, misspelled letters I get telling me to go back to Russia or wherever. "
Henry Rollins
Letters
Back
Me
" I think more tolerance, more people having more access to a chance to be literate, and a chance to stay healthy makes for a more peaceful planet. "
Henry Rollins
Think
Chance
Healthy
" Consumerism is at once the engine of America and simultaneously one of the most revealing indicators of our collective shallowness. "
Henry Rollins
Engine
Collective
America
" Where there is young people and vitality, you're going to find punk rock. "
Henry Rollins
Find
Rock
Punk
" The truth is an anti-war statement in itself. "
Henry Rollins
Truth Is
Anti-War
Statement