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" Sleep is for squares. "
Henry Rollins
Squares
Sleep
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" Early spring is the time for vigorous change, a preparation for the heat-driven oppression that is to come. "
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" Someone like Ashlee Simpson, she lip-synchs on 'Saturday Night Live,' gets totally called out la Milli Vanilli, and no one really cares that much. It doesn't make me hate Ashlee; she's just taking instructions. "
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She
Saturday
Hate
" Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn't worth the time and effort. "
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Effort
Time
" The only thing worse than the Pastor Terry Jones scheduled Koran burning is the fact that he canceled the proposed event. "
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Than
Only
Worse
" Those who seek to profit by division don't stand a chance. "
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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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Just
Artist
" Young, gay and stuck in Arkansas? Sounds like a horror flick. "
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Stuck
Sounds
" I am not immune to the lure of a signed record, flier or set list. The fact that your music heroes potentially had, in their own hands, the record you now have in yours is kind of cool. When the musician has departed, it can give the thing a unique power. "
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Cool
Unique
I Am
" If you think about it, every single species is endangered. Homo sapiens at the front of the line, mosquitoes and lawyers at the back. "
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Line
Lawyers
Back
" 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
" I love to go on stage and sing. "
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Stage
I Love
Love
" It's why real men just go out in the woods and howl. I must do it and get paid. "
Henry Rollins
Go
Just
Men
" The opportunity to write for the 'L.A. Weekly' has been one of the better breaks that has come my way in a long time. "
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Better
Time
Opportunity
" I'm terrified of motorcycles. I've been on one a couple of times. I did not like it. "
Henry Rollins
Like
Been
Couple
" 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. "
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Up
World
Internet
" For me, jazz will always be the soundtrack of the civil rights movement. "
Henry Rollins
Always
Jazz
Me
" Luckily for me, I genuinely like my audience. They really are a good bunch. "
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Me
Like
Audience
" It took me until my teenage years to realize that I was medicating with music. I was pushing back against my stupid school uniform, instructors who called me by my last name and my classmates, who, while friendly enough, were not at all inspiring. "
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Name
Enough
Me
" I think it's fantastic when the young enrage their elders. I really do believe that if it's too loud, you are indeed too old, and that if it has been standing for too long, it needs a thorough inspection. "
Henry Rollins
You
Young
Believe
" I read a bit of Ray Bradbury when I was a younger man. I don't read a lot of fiction anymore... like, none. "
Henry Rollins
Lot
Man
Ray
" My motto is, 'Never quit.' "
Henry Rollins
My Motto
Never Quit
Quit
" When I see the hatred exacted at Mr. Obama - you know, he lowered your taxes, killed your number one bad guy and got your guys out of Iraq - I don't understand why he seems to inflame people so much. You know, unless, unless there's a race problem. "
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Problem
Race
People
" 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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Artist
Giving
Yourself
" I never thought I was right for TV or that TV was right for me. "
Henry Rollins
TV
Never
Right
" I know that collector types can be a pain in the neck and seem perpetually frozen in time - or at least in their parents' basement - but someone has to look out for the past, lest it slip away forever. "
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Past
Know
Look
" George Zimmerman is a foot soldier in a rapidly privatizing country. He is a new centurion of 21st-century America. Law enforcement is tied down by the strictures of, well, the law. There is only 'so much they can do' to take care of the 'problem.' "
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Law
Take Care
Problem
" When I read that Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 had disappeared - a state-of-the-art Boeing 777, said to be an incredibly safe way to travel - I waited patiently for the chance to learn what happened. "
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Said
Way
Travel
" 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
" One of the odd enjoyments in life is to be alone in a room full of people. To have them there as unknowing human filler in your wide shot. "
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Shot
Alone
Room
" Kids need parents who love and support them unconditionally, full stop. "
Henry Rollins
Parents
Kids
Stop