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" To burn a CDR of music you like to give as a gift to someone you wish to become closer to is a cold, moist-palmed, mouth-breathing bummer. "
Henry Rollins
Burn
You
Wish
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" I guess, topic to topic, you could consider me a left-leaning person. "
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" I'm pessimistic. I don't think that justice always gets the right person. "
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" I tend to gravitate to the darkest or most obscure part of any venue in an effort to have my own space to experience the music on my own, free from unwanted conversations and other distractions. "
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" A lot of Americans don't have a passport, never will have a passport. Not only will they not travel, they don't want to travel. "
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" Rarely do I do film press because I'm so low on the food chain of the movie, and for me it's just this thing I did for four weeks before the next tour started. "
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" The Bad Seeds are a band I will travel a great distance to see whenever possible. "
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" What I don't want to do is go out there and not be able to mean it, you know? "
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" In the summer of '84, you just couldn't escape the Born in the USA record. "
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" Literally thousands of lawsuits have been filed against the NFL by retired players, many of whom say that information on brain injury in football was withheld from them. "
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" Football is at least as 'gay' as rugby, Greco-Roman wrestling and the film '300.' "
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" I'm actually on the Twitter like all those crazy young kids are, and if I'm going to do an in-store appearance or I post something on my website, I tweet these followers, a word I don't like so much, and over 50,000 people go, like, 'Okay, I got it.' "
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" Nothing moves me more than the history of the United States. "
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" August, the summer's last messenger of misery, is a hollow actor. "
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" Now and then, someone is able to look at an empty space, conclude it would be a great place to start a revolution, and bravely go forward. "
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" Life is weird, great and dangerous. "
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" Trayvon Martin did not need to die. "
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" I've made some great mistakes in my life, but, you know, they were honest mistakes. "
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" If American forces leave Afghanistan, the Taliban is going to do what to America? Don't say you're worried about what they will do to the Afghan people. If that was America's concern, America's operational presence there would be much different. "
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Say
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" When a band becomes as truly iconic as the Velvet Underground, there will often be a box set released, overburdened with mediocre material that dilutes what was fine left on its own. "
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" I can deal with people who watch me on stage but I am not good in communicating with people any other way than through my work. "
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" 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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Way
Travel
" Musicians should not play music. Music should play musicians. "
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Play
Musicians
" War is very sad and small life is pathetically fragile at times. "
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" 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. "
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" Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on. "
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" America is off-the-hook gay. I will not go all Ann Coulter on you and say, 'Our gays are better than their gays,' but as far as countries go, we are in-your-face gay. "
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" Don't do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul. When you go to work, work your ass off. When you hate someone, hate them until it hurts. "
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" I'm most in my element on tour, with a gig that day, like today. I'm on the road where I am supposed to be. I will be where I'm supposed to be at nighttime, on stage, in front of people, doing my thing. "
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" 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. "
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" Have you ever heard the expression 'one hot mess?' I think the term was custom-made for the mayor of Toronto, Rob Ford. "
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