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" The only thing about sanctions is that, like a lot of drone strikes, there are countless unintended victims. Cutting off aid to Uganda only increases the pain there. "

Henry Rollins

Off

Uganda

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" I never had any interest in being involved with the Boy Scouts. "

" At times, I feel America is something that I can actually put my arms around, more than a land mass and a Constitution, something far more containable and understandable. I don't exactly know what it is, but at these times I feel completely woven into it. "

" My understanding of first-degree murder is that premeditation needs to be proven. "

" Young, gay and stuck in Arkansas? Sounds like a horror flick. "

" 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. "

" 'The Great Gatsby' is a book I have read a few times, and it seems to get heavier every time I come to visit. "

" Adolescence is a plague on the senses. "

" I'm not interested in censorship. I like the First Amendment very much. "

" You might as well enjoy the day - you never know when and how painfully it could all end. "

" 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. "

" We know that in September, we will wander through the warm winds of summer's wreckage. We will welcome summer's ghost. "

" I just travel the world with my backpack and my cameras and a bunch of Clif bars. "

" Technically speaking, there is no music whatsoever on a CD. Lots of information, but no music. "

" You need a little bit of insanity to do great things. "

" I'm not a very good writer. I'm working at it. "

" The idea that any performer type is owed anything is a joke to me. "

Henry Rollins

Idea

Performer

" I'm not exactly ambitious as much as I have a very good realization of what I am and what I am capable of. "

" America is a country born from semi-mythologized blood, glory and acts of selfless patriotic sacrifice. "

" 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. "

" Trayvon Martin did not need to die. "

" Giving a good performance, giving it all is what it's all about. I love to perform. "

" Canadians are often a friendly bunch. "

" I'm most comfortable on stage. "

" With age, life becomes complex and difficult, often fraught with risk on several levels, from the practical to the fiscal. "

" I think, to a great degree, we humans still divide ourselves into two species, even though we are monotypic. There are males and females. We see them as different and not equal. "

" 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. "

Henry Rollins

Absurdity

" I hate painting with a broad brush, but I think the birther thing, at its root, is racist. The guy was born in Hawaii. A black guy is president. It's cool. Get over it. Just deal with it. There's nothing you could show these birther people that would shut them up. "

" I think marriage is a boring and fault-ridden contractual obligation. "