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The first several years of my life were used to upload incredible amounts of fear, and I just became afraid of everything. I was afraid of my parents, afraid of my classmates, afraid of the streets of Washington, D.C. I would flinch at every gesture. (Henry Rollins)
I think marriage is a boring and fault-ridden contractual obligation. View quote
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It's one thing to buy a copy of 'Atlas Shrugged.' You actually have to read it to get anything out of it. View quote
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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. View quote
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For the last 30-plus years, I have been doing one long, uninterrupted improv. View quote
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We Americans are hard on almost everything. We are hard on our vehicles, our marriages and our heroes. Mostly, however, we are hard on ourselves. View quote
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I want to learn more about the world. It makes me want to get up and go. View quote
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Collecting records is, for many, beyond a hobby. View quote
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I don't want to fail the audience. I don't want to let them down. View quote
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I find it takes a lot of strength to endure myself. View quote
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You can't get your head around something if you're yelling. (Henry Rollins)
Live music is the cure for what ails ya. View quote
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I'm not harmful, just introspective. You can probably think I'm weird, but it's not harmful weird. View quote
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Smart people make good choices. They dig science and say 'no' to the invasion of sovereign nations for the pleasure of corporations. View quote
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One of the odd enjoyments in life is to be alone in a room full of people. To have them there as unknowing human filler in your wide shot. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I have always maintained that Iggy Pop is the Heavyweight Champion of Rock & Roll. View quote
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This is my own little rock theory: In my mind, Nirvana slayed the hair bands. They shot the top off the poodles. View quote
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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. (Henry Rollins)
Voting is completely important. People in America think democracy is a given. I think of it as an ecosystem, and what gets in the way of it is politicians and apathy. View quote
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Kids need parents who love and support them unconditionally, full stop. View quote
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Whenever any great song or album gets lost in the ether, someone is deprived of the joy of hearing it, and the great effort of those who created and recorded the work is damaged. View quote
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Without an education, you won't have a future. View quote
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