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" The prison-industrial complex and the military-industrial complex are here with us and are multi-billion dollar enterprises. We can make more money off the kid in Compton if he's a criminal instead of a scholar. It's business. "

Henry Rollins

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" For me, jazz will always be the soundtrack of the civil rights movement. "

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" I spend several days at a time without enough sleep. At first, normal activities become annoying. When you are too tired to eat, you really need some sleep. A few days later, things become strange. Loud noises become louder and more startling, familiar sounds become unfamiliar, and life reinvents itself as a surrealist dream. "

" Now, if someone wants to spit on me, I just roll up the window of my BMW 540i. "

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" Ramones music has a Pavlovian effect on me - the song starts, and the world blurs around the sound. "

" I have always identified with Joan Didion's depiction of Los Angeles and Southern California, ever since reading 'Play It As It Lays,' 'Slouching Towards Bethlehem' and 'The White Album.' "

" The ecstatic insanity of romantic pursuit can be so enhanced by music that entire romantic conquests, victories and ruinous, crushing defeats can be tied to songs to such a degree that it's almost unbearable to listen to them again, as they bring back the memories so vividly. "

" You must never lower yourself to being a person you don't like. "

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" I have been curious about Haiti for many years. The history of the country is as fascinating as it is turbulent. "

" I love capitalism. It rewards me for being brave - it awards me for being innovative and thinking out of the box. "

" As performers grow older, I reckon there are two ways they can go. They can either be up there, playing more deeply from their guts than ever, or they can be phoning it in so crassly that it leaves a lump in your throat as you leave the venue at the end of the show. "

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" I am on until I am dead, like a light bulb. "

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" There's no rule that you have to like Henry Rollins the musician or the actor. "

" Early spring is the time for vigorous change, a preparation for the heat-driven oppression that is to come. "

" When you are young, there is so much ahead of you, it's like the Saharan desert. You can't even see across it. "

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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. "

" If I had to perform in a comedy club I would bomb; I would be trying too hard. "

" As a young person growing up in Washington, D.C., summers were hot, humid and relentless. My friends and I grew more restless and adventurous with every passing year. "

" It is amazing to hear grown-up people rationalize homophobia and discrimination. The lengths they go to trying to prove their points take reason to its breaking point. "

" There's a lot of mountain climbers trapped inside of bodies of people behind the counter at Kinko's. "

" Musicians should not play music. Music should play musicians. "

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

" It has been hard to get my head around how Justice Antonin Scalia rationalizes his decisions. His body blow to the Voting Rights Act was a head scratcher, but at least he was calm when he attempted to justify his odd logic. "

" Most Americans are very cool people. "

" I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone. "

" I'd like to talk to Arnold Schwarzenegger, 'cause I live in California and I just want to see that canned, chemical filled body in my office. "

" I once asked Ozzy Osbourne, truly one of my favorite people in the world, if he was cool with singing Black Sabbath songs year after year, whether he was performing with Black Sabbath or out on a solo tour. He said it was great. "

" Pizza makes me think that anything is possible. "

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" Could it be that violence is as much a part of the American identity as the Constitution, and a vital component to its economic stability? "

" 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. "