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" You must never lower yourself to being a person you don't like. "
Henry Rollins
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" As long as I tell the truth I feel that nobody can touch me. "
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" The Internet, the camera cellphone and the like have not only sped up the world's information uptake, but they have cheapened that which they capture. "
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" I get along with Australians really well. Everyone's usually really cool, and it's always a drag to leave. "
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" I have never experienced anything like walking out onto the stage of an oversold venue and, before the first note is struck, realizing that there is not going to be enough oxygen for all of us. "
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" You need a little bit of insanity to do great things. "
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" Everything I do, writing, touring, travelling, it all comes from the punk and hardcore attitude, from that expression - from being open to try things but relying on yourself, taking what you have into the battle and making of it what you will, hoping you can figure it out as you go. Make some sense of it. "
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You
" 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. "
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Time
Frustration
Enough
" I remember when Martin Luther King was assassinated. I was up early watching television and watched the announcement. I didn't understand what the word 'assassinated' meant. "
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Television
Up
Early
" We know that in September, we will wander through the warm winds of summer's wreckage. We will welcome summer's ghost. "
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Wander
Summer
" 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. "
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" Do you know why Albert Camus was so prolific? He wrote to keep from screaming. "
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Keep
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Why
" I plan to be a part of Haiti's reconstruction and future. "
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Reconstruction
Plan
Haiti
" Seven-11 is the pulse-beat of America. I think that Bruce Springsteen should do a song about a 7-11 in Asbury Park, New Jersey, but write it in such a way that American's youth can identify and slurp along with the Boss. Hail the Boss! Hail 7-11! "
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Song
Boss
America
" Death metal uses a lot of white face paint and black hair dye to make its point. I quite enjoy this genre for its intensity, extremism and underlying irony: You have to be alive to play it and listen to it. "
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Enjoy
Death
Black
" I've been in Iraq, and it never occurred to me to go, 'Hey, this war is bogus,' to some guy who's 24 hours a day trying not to get shot at or blown up. "
Henry Rollins
War
Go
Day
" 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. "
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Down
People
Science
" There's no rule that you have to like Henry Rollins the musician or the actor. "
Henry Rollins
Actor
Musician
Rule
" If I hear, 'Be afraid of Tehran,' I'm like, 'I'd better go to Tehran.' "
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Tehran
Afraid
Like
" Live music is the cure for what ails ya. "
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Live
Music
Ya
" Rock n' roll unchained a nation and revolutionized radio and the record industry, not to mention the motion picture business. "
Henry Rollins
Business
Rock
Nation
" I want to learn more about the world. It makes me want to get up and go. "
Henry Rollins
Learn
Me
More
" I think young people should travel and travel often to other countries... like I do. "
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Travel
People
Like
" 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. "
Henry Rollins
You
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People
" I would like to become a better photographer. I'm working on that. "
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Working
Photographer
Better
" 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. "
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Think
Good
Sadness
" Musicians should not play music. Music should play musicians. "
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Play Music
Play
Musicians
" 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. "
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Winter
Weather
Watch
" Football is at least as 'gay' as rugby, Greco-Roman wrestling and the film '300.' "
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Film
Gay
Rugby
" We spend millions of dollars to remove pain from our lives. It's why so many people get hooked on painkillers. The body becomes addicted to painlessness. That tells you a lot. "
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Spend
Why
You
" For many, an album is no longer a considerable feat of an artist but just sounds to be half-listened to while one is halfheartedly engaged in something else. "
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Something
Just
Artist