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" Pizza makes me think that anything is possible. "
Henry Rollins
Me
Pizza
Anything Is Possible
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" Imagine someone so infatuated by a band that they have every different pressing of every album the band made. Most of the time, the only difference in the album is the matrix number or a different 'made in' notation on the back cover or label. This is enough to make some people extremely excited. Actually, much more than excited. "
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" We're at peak oil, peak water, peak resources, and so either we figure it out and let science lead or we head down a very bad, dark trail to where a lot of people aren't going to make it. "
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" Don't do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul. When you go to work, work your ass off. When you hate someone, hate them until it hurts. "
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" Motivation has always been a fascinating factor when considering a touring artist, especially when the years stack up. What keeps one out there year after year? "
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" Try driving the streets of Los Angeles without seeing a billboard depicting a film with a lead actor holding a gun. It's almost as if guns are harmless props used to bring out the cheekbones and jawline of the screen star. "
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" I think a lot of Americans have never been all that hungry. They've never had war on their shore, and they've never suffered the way other cultures have suffered. I'm not saying we should go suffer. Not at all. I'm saying we should be more aware of how other cultures exist. "
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" Without an education, you won't have a future. "
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" I have not the smarts or patience for political office. "
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" I think Naomi Klein was very astute with her book 'Shock Doctrine.' We make money on disaster. "
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" Whenever any great song or album gets lost in the ether, someone is deprived of the joy of hearing it, and the great effort of those who created and recorded the work is damaged. "
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" More than 30 years ago, in Washington, D.C., I secured a copy of a single by a Los Angeles band called The Bags. The two-song 7-inch, released on Dangerhouse, had a girl on the cover who looked right at you with huge eyes. The songs, 'Survive' and 'Babylonian Gorgon,' were great and made many of my mix tapes. "
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Copy
" 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. "
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High School
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" Young African-American males: Stop existing. It could get you killed. "
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" 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. "
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" I don't want to fail the audience. I don't want to let them down. "
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" My laptop seems to know where I am, even if I don't. My cellphone asks me if I want directions to anywhere from the spot I am standing in. I buy a record online and Amazon.com sends me letters, telling me that people who bought what I bought also bought these other records. "
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" 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.' "
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" 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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" Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium. "
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" Every summer, around late July and into August, I find myself in Europe, performing at any festival that will have me. "
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" Music files and downloading have indeed changed the currency of music to a great degree. "
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He
" It's why real men just go out in the woods and howl. I must do it and get paid. "
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" Keep your blood clean, your body lean, and your mind sharp. "
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" Rarely do I do film press because I'm so low on the food chain of the movie, and for me it's just this thing I did for four weeks before the next tour started. "
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" If there is one set of laws, one Constitution for every citizen, its protections hopefully applied equally to all, then why do the results seem to differ so radically? What do you call that? Look around - you're living in it. "
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