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" We Californians can watch the Weather Channel for images of winter's brutality unleashed upon our fellow Americans and thank our lucky stars we don't have to contend with it. "
Henry Rollins
Winter
Weather
Watch
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" There's always going to be a need for activism; there's always going to be a need for you and me doing the right thing, being very Lincoln-sonian in looking out for each other. "
Henry Rollins
Me
Looking
Doing The Right Thing
" We humans are hard to deal with. We are a loud, complex and demanding bunch. Often, we are best dealt with from a safe distance and for only brief periods of time. This could be why a lot of marriages fail. "
Henry Rollins
Distance
Safe
Why
" I don't know how much you follow current events. For some, there's not enough time to keep up on what's happening; for others, the news is too depressing, and peering too deeply fills one with boiling frustration all too quickly. "
Henry Rollins
Time
Frustration
Enough
" Of course same sex marriage is constitutional! The right to be yourself, to pursue life, liberty, and property, is protected several ways over several amendments. John Boehner should know this. "
Henry Rollins
Yourself
Marriage
Life
" Watching a documentary with people hacking their way through some polar wasteland is merely a visual. Actually trying to deal with cold that can literally kill you is quite a different thing. "
Henry Rollins
People
Cold
Hacking
" Citizens United didn't work. Hey, Koch brothers, Karl Rove, Shellgame Adelson: Democracy trumps money sometimes. "
Henry Rollins
Work
Democracy
Sometimes
" It's why real men just go out in the woods and howl. I must do it and get paid. "
Henry Rollins
Go
Just
Men
" I wasn't playing the music, the music was playing me... and once that went away, and I had the feeling I was playing music, I had to stop. The need to go onstage and get my brain flattened every night left me, and what I didn't wanna do is go onstage and perpetrate a fraud... You cannot fool an audience. "
Henry Rollins
Fool
Brain
Me
" Luckily for me, I genuinely like my audience. They really are a good bunch. "
Henry Rollins
Me
Like
Audience
" Maybe I'm just a psycho, and the stage is a better place to go than either the loony bin or somewhere else. "
Henry Rollins
Better Place
Stage
Better
" If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light, If I lose paper and ink, I will write in blood on forgotten walls. I will write always. I will capture nights all over the world and bring them to you. "
Henry Rollins
Sun
World
Walls
" I try to get myself up and moving as early as possible. Optimum is to be on the treadmill while it is still dark outside. "
Henry Rollins
Up
Try
Dark
" 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
" Giving a good performance, giving it all is what it's all about. I love to perform. "
Henry Rollins
Love
Good
Giving
" Marriage equality is a term so ridiculous on its face that when you hear it mentioned, you would think you were in Riyadh. Years from now, perhaps we can lose the equality part, the same-sex part and call it what it is - marriage. "
Henry Rollins
You
Equality
Think
" Humans are pretty crafty but will fold quickly in severe cold. "
Henry Rollins
Crafty
Cold
Fold
" It's not lost on me that everyone dies, but some people have a kind of immortality about them, and you can't imagine that they will ever be gone. "
Henry Rollins
Some People
Me
Lost
" 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. "
Henry Rollins
Work
Love
Hate
" If you want to believe that humans walked with dinosaurs and the planet is a few thousand years old, that is absolutely fine with me. If you want to teach this to your kids, I don't care. If states want to teach creationism in their schools, there is nothing I can do about it, so I don't sweat it. "
Henry Rollins
Sweat
You
Nothing
" When I think of Mick Jagger still singing that he can't get any satisfaction in over forty years of being in the Rolling Stones, I have to conclude that he's either lying or not all that bright. "
Henry Rollins
Lying
Think
Singing
" I never thought I was right for TV or that TV was right for me. "
Henry Rollins
TV
Never
Right
" For many years, I tried to make New Year's resolutions. I made lists and shot for great heights: I would show altruism and exert moral strength, patience and all those other great attributes. "
Henry Rollins
Moral
New
Patience
" As long as I tell the truth I feel that nobody can touch me. "
Henry Rollins
Feel
Truth
Touch
" Questioning anything and everything, to me, is punk rock. "
Henry Rollins
Rock
Everything
Me
" No matter how rough things can be at times, many Americans are optimistic and on the move. "
Henry Rollins
Matter
How
Rough
" I contribute a large amount of money to the Southern Poverty Law Center, so I'm on their mailing list for all their Klan Watch newsletters. I'm very well aware of White Power movements in America. "
Henry Rollins
Law
Money
Poverty
" If there is one set of laws, one Constitution for every citizen, its protections hopefully applied equally to all, then why do the results seem to differ so radically? What do you call that? Look around - you're living in it. "
Henry Rollins
Living
Look
Constitution
" Rock is ironic in that, up to a certain point, you can get better and better at it if you don't mind possibly looking more and more ridiculous. "
Henry Rollins
You
Rock
More
" Young African-American males: Stop existing. It could get you killed. "
Henry Rollins
Get
Stop
You
" When I am in Africa, I realize I don't know much, have not seen much, and there's a lot to be done. "
Henry Rollins
I Am
Seen
Realize