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If There Is One Set Of Laws, One Constitution For Every Citizen, Its Protections Hopefully Applied Equally To All, Then Why Do The Results Seem To Differ So Radically? What Do You Call That? Look Around - You're Living In It.

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Henry Rollins

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If There Is One Set Of Laws, One Constitution For Every Citizen, Its Protections Hopefully Applied Equally To All, Then Why Do The Results Seem To Differ So Radically? What Do You Call That? Look Around - You're Living In It.

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Mainstream Culture

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You Never Have To Listen To A Famous Person, It's An Elective.

I Know You’ll Never Love Me But Maybe You’ll Stay For Awhile.

I'm Not In A Position Where I Get To Pick And Choose Roles. I Usually Go On Auditions In Long Lines And Embarrass Myself In Front Of Casting Directors, And With A Lump In My Throat And My Ears Burning, I Walk Past Reception And Smirking Actors As I Go To The Parking Garage And Go Back On The Highway.

It's Not Lost On Me That Everyone Dies, But Some People Have A Kind Of Immortality About Them, And You Can't Imagine That They Will Ever Be Gone.

You Can Find Me In The Frozen Mood Section.

Questioning Anything And Everything, To Me, Is Punk Rock.

Anything And Everything

You Have To Get Away From Them. You Have To Get As Far Away As You Can Otherwise They'll Kill You With Their Lives. They Don't Know What They Do. They Are Careless With Themselves And They Take Too Much For Granted. They Make Their Shortcomings Your Problem. The Only Way To Keep Your Head Above It And Heal Your Wounds Is To Crawl Away.

Most Americans Are Very Cool People.

In The Summer Of '84, You Just Couldn't Escape The Born In The Usa Record.

I Got My Heart Broken. My Spirit Got Shattered And Mutilated. I Will Not Be Coming Back From This. I Don’t Want To.

Sometimes You Can Get So Far In Yourself That You Don't Know Who You Are.

Being In New York Is An Almost Overwhelming Experience. While Washington, D.c., Is My Favorite American City, I Regard New York City As The Most Amazing City In The World. No Other Comes Close. It Is An Incredible, Inexhaustible Engine.

Imagine A 15-year-old Kid Saying, 'i Have Two Moms - It's Cool.' I Don't Fear That At All.

I Used To Sit On The Roof Of The Apartment Where Jim Morrison Used To Write His Early Lyrics

I Could Fall In Love With A Cruel Desert That Kills Without Passion, A Canyon Full Of Scorpions, One Thousand Blinding Arctic Storms, A Century Sealed In A Cave, A River Of Molten Salt Flowing Down My Throat. But Never With You.

Falling In Love

I Don't Wish To Be Anything More Or Less Than What I Am. If This Is How It Is, Then So Be It.

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