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I have always thought that change you can see and feel is best. (Henry Rollins)
There's no such thing as an ex-junkie. View quote
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But I have a good life. I enjoy what I do. I am married to work. View quote
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I don't want to pass through life like a smooth plane ride. View quote
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I think more tolerance, more people having more access to a chance to be literate, and a chance to stay healthy makes for a more peaceful planet. View quote
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After I left D.C. to join Black Flag, I felt I was in a band. View quote
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And I love the hate mail I get, the unsigned, misspelled letters I get telling me to go back to Russia or wherever. View quote
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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. View quote
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As far as I have been able to understand, the Japanese seem to keep things close to the vest. Friendly but remote and polite to the point of being invisible. It is in the music, literature, film and art that the Japanese really seem to express themselves. View quote
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I know that collector types can be a pain in the neck and seem perpetually frozen in time - or at least in their parents' basement - but someone has to look out for the past, lest it slip away forever. View quote
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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)
As a teen, I heard the second Velvet Underground album, 'White Light/White Heat,' and it was too much for my limited scope of appreciation. It was intense, but I didn't get it. View quote
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I have a lot of compact discs. I need them for radio play and convenience. Many bands and artists I am a fan of don't always release their work on vinyl, so I take what they feel like giving me. View quote
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The perpetrators of the actual bad stuff that does real and lasting harm to people, like leakage of industrial chemicals into water systems, seem to get not so much as a second glance; the bloviation from media pundits and think tanks creates false problems that waste time and energy debunking. View quote
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I always start tours with a great deal of anticipation. View quote
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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. View quote
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The only thing worse than the Pastor Terry Jones scheduled Koran burning is the fact that he canceled the proposed event. View quote
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The Ruts were a great punk rock band from England whose songs were as excellent as their time together was short. View quote
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One person's disaster is another person's talking point. View quote
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A text conversation is a short exchange of often grossly truncated language that corresponds to a thought made all the more shallow by the process. View quote
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I was happy to find out that when on tour, Dolly Parton doesn't use hotels but stays on her bus every night, to the point of having her buses shipped from Austria to Australia so she can tour the way she sees fit. I used one of her buses once - an honor. (Henry Rollins)
August used to be a sad month for me. As the days went on, the thought of school starting weighed heavily upon my young frame. That, coupled with the oppressive heat and humidity of my native Washington, D.C., only seemed to heighten the misery. View quote
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I don't know if music has ever achieved anything past appealing to the people that it appeals to. If a song could stop a war, then Bob Marley and Bob Dylan songs would have stopped one or two. View quote
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Music files and downloading have indeed changed the currency of music to a great degree. View quote
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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.' View quote
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