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" Smart people make good choices. They dig science and say 'no' to the invasion of sovereign nations for the pleasure of corporations. "
Henry Rollins
Smart
Good
Choices
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" Football is at least as 'gay' as rugby, Greco-Roman wrestling and the film '300.' "
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Film
Gay
Rugby
" 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. "
Henry Rollins
People
Want
Standing
" For me, jazz will always be the soundtrack of the civil rights movement. "
Henry Rollins
Always
Jazz
Me
" Life is weird, great and dangerous. "
Henry Rollins
Weird
Life
Great
" As far as I have been able to understand, the Japanese seem to keep things close to the vest. Friendly but remote and polite to the point of being invisible. It is in the music, literature, film and art that the Japanese really seem to express themselves. "
Henry Rollins
Literature
Understand
Art
" 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
Constitution
First Amendment
Hero
" If it's a man's world, as they say, then men, your world is a poorly run carnage fest. "
Henry Rollins
Run
They Say
World
" 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
" Spring and fall, those are very inspiring times of the year for me. "
Henry Rollins
Year
Those
Spring
" My motto is, 'Never quit.' "
Henry Rollins
My Motto
Never Quit
Quit
" The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was vigorously and vociferously opposed by the Southern states. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed it into law nonetheless. "
Henry Rollins
Civil Rights
President
Law
" In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move. "
Henry Rollins
Plot
Winter
Spring
" For many years, my favorite director has been the Japanese giant Akira Kurosawa. "
Henry Rollins
Been
Director
Favorite
" I am an optimist because I want to change things for the better and I know that blood has to be spilled and disharmony and cruelty are necessary to do that. "
Henry Rollins
Change
Know
I Am
" If I'm in L.A. for longer than 20 days, I'm looking for work, because I don't do vacations. "
Henry Rollins
Work
Because
Than
" I get angry about stuff, I get very emotionally intense about stuff and that's how I get it out - with books, with the band, on my own onstage, but it's always kind of a wail. "
Henry Rollins
Band
Always
Own
" 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
" We know that in September, we will wander through the warm winds of summer's wreckage. We will welcome summer's ghost. "
Henry Rollins
Ghost
Wander
Summer
" To my ears, jazz sounds better in warm weather and after the sun has gone down. While I will listen to some of my favorite jazz records in cooler weather, it's the warmer nights that really make them come alive. Something about those sounds and the heat of the night really makes it happen for me. "
Henry Rollins
Me
Sun
Night
" 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
" Early spring is the time for vigorous change, a preparation for the heat-driven oppression that is to come. "
Henry Rollins
Change
Time
Early
" It's one thing to buy a copy of 'Atlas Shrugged.' You actually have to read it to get anything out of it. "
Henry Rollins
You
Anything
Buy
" Having an identity is one thing. Being born into an identity is quite a different matter. "
Henry Rollins
Being
Different
Identity
" I'm not in a position where I get to pick and choose roles. I usually go on auditions in long lines and embarrass myself in front of casting directors, and with a lump in my throat and my ears burning, I walk past reception and smirking actors as I go to the parking garage and go back on the highway. "
Henry Rollins
Long
Choose
Past
" I am neither pro- nor anti-gun. I am gun-conscious. "
Henry Rollins
I Am
Neither
Nor
" This is my own little rock theory: In my mind, Nirvana slayed the hair bands. They shot the top off the poodles. "
Henry Rollins
Hair
Rock
Own
" I mean I appreciate fan mail and that the people like what I am doing but I can't answer it. If I would answer 25 letters a day I would be just a guy answering mail and not an artist anymore. "
Henry Rollins
I Am
People
Day
" 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
" Keep your blood clean, your body lean, and your mind sharp. "
Henry Rollins
Body
Clean
Blood
" So I'm more at home with my backpack, sleeping in a hotel room or on a bus or on an airplane, than I am necessarily on a bed. It's weird being here. It feels like I'm standing next to my real life. "
Henry Rollins
Home
Weird
Life