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" When you're kept out of the adult world, it's a blessing in disguise. "
Henry Rollins
Out
You
Disguise
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" I think young people should travel and travel often to other countries... like I do. "
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" The Wacken festival started more than 20 years ago with just a few hundred people in attendance. Tickets now sell out before the lineup is announced. "
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Started
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" It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew. "
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Know
Sad
" Weakness is what brings ignorance, cheapness, racism, homophobia, desperation, cruelty, brutality, all these things that will keep a society chained to the ground, one foot nailed to the floor. "
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" People will remember that the Tea Party was co-opted and funded by billion-dollar corporations, and that it was supported by Fox News and other outlets with the same vigor with which they attempt to denigrate the Occupy protesters. "
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Remember
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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. "
Henry Rollins
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Years
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" 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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College
Future
World
" Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good. "
Henry Rollins
Hurts
Truth
Sometimes
" While I have no empirical evidence to back this up, I bet that the number of homosexual people per thousand has not fluctuated all that much over the centuries. I do not believe the dented wisdom my father used to extol, that homosexuality was a sure sign of a civilization in decline. "
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Believe
Back
Wisdom
" 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. "
Henry Rollins
Justice
Decisions
Calm
" To this day, my haircut is the number two clippers, which I apply to myself every month. "
Henry Rollins
Haircut
Day
Two
" George Zimmerman is a foot soldier in a rapidly privatizing country. He is a new centurion of 21st-century America. Law enforcement is tied down by the strictures of, well, the law. There is only 'so much they can do' to take care of the 'problem.' "
Henry Rollins
Law
Take Care
Problem
" I can't remember that I ever had just a minute of stage fright. "
Henry Rollins
Minute
Stage Fright
Remember
" 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
" One of the most insane environments I have ever spent time in is a gun range. There we are, all in a line, armed to the teeth, firing away. "
Henry Rollins
Away
Time
Teeth
" If I'm jetlagging, and I've missed some meals, and it gets to that point in a movie that you're supposed to cry, I'll let my defences down from around my inherent standing level of cynicism, and I'll cry. "
Henry Rollins
Standing
You
Missed
" I think it is incumbent on anyone who can to lift human dignity to the highest possible levels, maintaining one's own and helping to raise that of others. "
Henry Rollins
Think
Lift
Own
" I think Naomi Klein was very astute with her book 'Shock Doctrine.' We make money on disaster. "
Henry Rollins
Her
Shock
Think
" If some band sucks, you're going to have to find out about it for yourself, because I don't have the interest in issuing warnings. "
Henry Rollins
You
Yourself
Out
" 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. "
Henry Rollins
Band
Always
Own
" I'm not harmful, just introspective. You can probably think I'm weird, but it's not harmful weird. "
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Just
You
Think
" All my big heroes are literary, writers. "
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Heroes
Writers
Big
" If I were a doctor, I would prescribe that you addict yourself deeply and irrevocably to music and never, ever seek cure outside of more music. It really is the best drug available. "
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Doctor
Best
More
" Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on. "
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Realize
Stronger
Strength
" There's no rule that you have to like Henry Rollins the musician or the actor. "
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Actor
Musician
Rule
" I don't think you'll ever have a perfect world because we humans are prone to error, and so we're always in search of an upgrade. "
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Search
World
Think
" 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. "
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You
Equality
Think
" For me, jazz will always be the soundtrack of the civil rights movement. "
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Always
Jazz
Me
" When someone asks you, 'What's punk?' my reply is, 'If you have to ask, you're never going to know.' "
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Reply
Know
You
" I'm not into fame. I'm not into making money, outside of financing my books. I'm not into status. My thing is basically about time - not wasting it. "
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Making Money
Money
Time