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" I don't believe it mattered to Timothy McVeigh who was president or who his congressional representative was when he blew up the Murrah Building in 1995. "
Henry Rollins
Believe
Who
Up
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" Texas is as odd as it is vast. "
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" Before any American points a finger at President Putin and calls him nasty names, they should recognize that a lot of Americans agree with Putin on his stance against homosexual and transgender people. "
Henry Rollins
American
Transgender
Him
" America is off-the-hook gay. I will not go all Ann Coulter on you and say, 'Our gays are better than their gays,' but as far as countries go, we are in-your-face gay. "
Henry Rollins
You
America
Better
" 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. "
Henry Rollins
Thought
Process
More
" 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. "
Henry Rollins
Literature
Understand
Art
" I spend several days at a time without enough sleep. At first, normal activities become annoying. When you are too tired to eat, you really need some sleep. A few days later, things become strange. Loud noises become louder and more startling, familiar sounds become unfamiliar, and life reinvents itself as a surrealist dream. "
Henry Rollins
Tired
You
Sleep
" If you listen to the way I speak and watch the way I conduct myself - there's nothing about me that's rock n' roll. It's like, 'Hello, I'm in a rock n' roll band'. 'No, you're a narc.' "
Henry Rollins
Rock
Myself
Speak
" A country that has been through as much as Vietnam has to have some crazy music somewhere. "
Henry Rollins
Country
Music
Much
" I've always seen it as the role of an artist to drag his inside out, give the audience all you've got. Writers, actors, singers, all good artists do the same. It isn't supposed to be easy. "
Henry Rollins
Good
Audience
You
" I don't believe in fate or destiny. I believe in various degrees of hatred, paranoia, and abandonment. However much of that gets heaped upon you doesn't matter - it's only a matter of how much you can take and what it does to you. "
Henry Rollins
You
Fate
Destiny
" Trayvon Martin did not need to die. "
Henry Rollins
Did
Need
Martin
" 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. "
Henry Rollins
Something
Just
Artist
" Scott Asheton was a brilliant drummer, a natural musician. "
Henry Rollins
Natural
Brilliant
Drummer
" If you want to go the scorched-earth, Obamacare-is-like-slavery route and choose to stay uninsured, you will have the Palinesque guts, the Cruzian fortitude to wave off the ambulance that will appear to scoop you up should something bad happen to you, right? "
Henry Rollins
Bad
Choose
You
" The number of people who are actual supporters of Mr. Romney could very well be less than the Donner Party, whose members they sadly resemble in many ways. "
Henry Rollins
Number
Well
Whose
" There's no rule that you have to like Henry Rollins the musician or the actor. "
Henry Rollins
Actor
Musician
Rule
" I have been an XL fan of Devo since I was in high school in the 1970s. Their records only sound better with time. "
Henry Rollins
High School
Better
School
" Sleep is for squares. "
Henry Rollins
Squares
Sleep
" You could split hairs and bring up words like 'doo-wop' and terms like 'soul' or 'R&B', but I think pop music is what you want it to be - that's why it's pop. "
Henry Rollins
Soul
You
Words
" 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
" It is amazing to hear grown-up people rationalize homophobia and discrimination. The lengths they go to trying to prove their points take reason to its breaking point. "
Henry Rollins
Trying
Amazing
Discrimination
" The only difference between me and others is that they think they can change something with cute little poems, nice cards or embracing trees and being nice to little lapdogs. "
Henry Rollins
Cute
Me
Think
" I read a bit of Ray Bradbury when I was a younger man. I don't read a lot of fiction anymore... like, none. "
Henry Rollins
Lot
Man
Ray
" When you are young, there is so much ahead of you, it's like the Saharan desert. You can't even see across it. "
Henry Rollins
Like
See
You
" I've made some great mistakes in my life, but, you know, they were honest mistakes. "
Henry Rollins
My Life
Great
Know
" Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on. "
Henry Rollins
Realize
Stronger
Strength
" Change is hard, but change is good. "
Henry Rollins
Hard
Good
Change
" I don't hate the government. I don't think the Second Amendment is being infringed upon. "
Henry Rollins
Think
Government
Amendment
" The only thing worse than the Pastor Terry Jones scheduled Koran burning is the fact that he canceled the proposed event. "
Henry Rollins
Than
Only
Worse
" I think marriage is a boring and fault-ridden contractual obligation. "
Henry Rollins
Boring
Obligation
Think