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" That Newt Gingrich or any mainstream Republican has the nerve to look down from what they perceive as their moral mountaintop at anyone is laughable. "
Henry Rollins
Perceive
Look
Down
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" Airports in major cities, like LAX, are trippy environments. It is at once a national and international gathering of those in transition: The euphoric, emerging from planes, their journey at an end, and the determined, about to depart. "
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Journey
" I think that humans have a huge capacity to carry pain and sadness. There are things that haunt us our entire lives; we are unable to let them go. The good times seem almost effervescent and dreamlike in comparison with the times that didn't go so well. "
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" If I had to live my life in anticipation of what others thought of me, little would get done. "
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" One of the most prevalent and undermentioned genres of music is what is known as noise. You can find it all over the world happening in basements, small venues and even some festivals. Often blown off or belittled by critics, the form for the most part goes unheard and unnoticed. "
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" 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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Time
" And I love the hate mail I get, the unsigned, misspelled letters I get telling me to go back to Russia or wherever. "
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Back
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" The Bad Seeds are a band I will travel a great distance to see whenever possible. "
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Bad
Distance
Travel
" In my bright, utopian future world, they will hand out college educations like cups of water at the end of the L.A. Marathon. "
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Future
World
" After I left D.C. to join Black Flag, I felt I was in a band. "
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Left
Flag
Black
" We are misery-making machines! Homo sapiens has perfected the art of causing suffering. Pain is humankind's collective GDP. "
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" I plan to be a part of Haiti's reconstruction and future. "
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" The best compliment I get every year is that a band will write me and say, 'We were just on tour, and we had people coming to our show saying they had never heard us before they heard us on your show.' "
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People
Best
Compliment
" Where there is young people and vitality, you're going to find punk rock. "
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Find
Rock
Punk
" Humans are pretty crafty but will fold quickly in severe cold. "
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Crafty
Cold
Fold
" 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
" Rock n' roll unchained a nation and revolutionized radio and the record industry, not to mention the motion picture business. "
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Business
Rock
Nation
" Pride is a thing that I have tried to abandon completely. Try as I might, pride still creeps into many of the things I do. "
Henry Rollins
Things
Many
Pride
" I have been curious about Haiti for many years. The history of the country is as fascinating as it is turbulent. "
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Been
Years
History
" 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. "
Henry Rollins
Girl
Band
Copy
" If you paid Americans a living wage, they would be able to pay for products made by Americans in America. "
Henry Rollins
You
Pay
Products
" Music files and downloading have indeed changed the currency of music to a great degree. "
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Great
Currency
Degree
" Nothing moves me more than the history of the United States. "
Henry Rollins
History
Nothing
More
" I don't believe it mattered to Timothy McVeigh who was president or who his congressional representative was when he blew up the Murrah Building in 1995. "
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Who
Up
" I'm not exactly ambitious as much as I have a very good realization of what I am and what I am capable of. "
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Realization
Much
I Am
" 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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People
Free
Me
" August, the summer's last messenger of misery, is a hollow actor. "
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Messenger
Summer
" My first visit to West Berlin was in February 1983. The drive through East Berlin, the fact that West Berlin was surrounded by a wall that was more than 100 miles long - the absurdity and intensity of it really knocked me out. "
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Me
More
Absurdity
" 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. "
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Appreciation
Teen
Too Much
" Football is at least as 'gay' as rugby, Greco-Roman wrestling and the film '300.' "
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Rugby
" I don't know if you have ever seen the Woody Allen film 'Annie Hall,' but it is, in a way, to Los Angeles and 'Hollywood' what 'This Is Spinal Tap' is to many musicians. "
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