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There Is A Concerted Effort To Keep You And Me, You Know, The People, Away From What It [war] Really Looks Like, 'cause When You're Selling War, When It's Such A Big Industry. What They Don't Tell You Is The Rest Of It And The Down Side Of It. And So Obviously There Is A Lot Of Money And A Lot Of Time And Effort Being Spent On That Campaign "perpetual War For Perpetual Peace".

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Henry Rollins

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There Is A Concerted Effort To Keep You And Me, You Know, The People, Away From What It [war] Really Looks Like, 'cause When You're Selling War, When It's Such A Big Industry. What They Don't Tell You Is The Rest Of It And The Down Side Of It. And So Obviously There Is A Lot Of Money And A Lot Of Time And Effort Being Spent On That Campaign "perpetual War For Perpetual Peace".

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For The Last 30-plus Years, I Have Been Doing One Long, Uninterrupted Improv.

Contemporary Bands Often Will Do Tour-only Releases Pressed And Sold Only In Australia. Crikey!

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

Rarely Do I Do Film Press Because I'm So Low On The Food Chain Of The Movie, And For Me It's Just This Thing I Did For Four Weeks Before The Next Tour Started.

I Am Always Interested In An Opportunity To Learn Something.

Opportunities To Learn

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.

We Are Misery-making Machines! Homo Sapiens Has Perfected The Art Of Causing Suffering. Pain Is Humankind's Collective Gdp.

There's A Lot Of Stuff Like That That American's Don't Know And Since A Lot Of Americans Don't Have A Passport, I'll Get A Passport For Them And Since A Lot Of Americans Don't Know What A War Looks Like Thirty, Forty Years Later And It's Still Doing Damage.

You’ll Never Know That Just Sitting Across A Room Full Of People, I Have Transformed You Into A Goddess. A Destroyer Of Despair.

There's No Rule That You Have To Like Henry Rollins The Musician Or The Actor.

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.

Some Music Really Does Suck!

All Of The Jobs Have Gone Away To Satisfy The Stockholders, So That's Where The Economy Has Gone. These Major Multinational Corporations Do Not See Their Futures In America.

If I Hear, 'be Afraid Of Tehran,' I'm Like, 'i'd Better Go To Tehran.'

I Do Think That Americans Are Poorly Served By Their Media, At Times Extremely Poorly Served By Their Elected Officials Who Are Non Responsive To Majority Feelings And Cut Off To A Certain Degree From The Affairs Of The World.

Pride Is A Thing That I Have Tried To Abandon Completely. Try As I Might, Pride Still Creeps Into Many Of The Things I Do.

I Don't Mean To Be Arrogant And I Really Appreciate My Fans But Talking About What I Am Doing Is Not Something I'm Good At. I Do What I Do And That's It. I Want To Get Back To My Work And Do More Of It Instead Of Talking About It.

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.

All Of The Things That The Bible Warns You Of Being: Jealous, Covetous, Murderous, Selfish, Etc., That's Kind Of How Humans Are.

How Memories Lie To Us. How Time Coats The Ordinary With Gold. How It Breaks The Heart To Go Back And Attempt To Re-live Them. How Crushed We Are When We Discover That The Gold Was Merely Gold-plating Thinly Coated Over Lead, Chalk And Peeling Paint.

Love Is Self Deception. I Am A Living Creature. Hate Is Only Self Love. I Am A Double Feature.

If You Really Want To Rebel Against Your Parents: Outearn Them, Outlive Them, And Know More Than They Do.

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

Whenever I Write Lyrics, In The Back Of My Mind I Always See A Guy Driving To Work, Driving To A Really Bad Job, One Of Those Horrible Institutions, Or One Of Those Low Squat Buildings In Los Angeles. I Write With That Person In My Mind.

Pizza Makes Me Think That Anything Is Possible.

Anything Is Possible

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.

When Someone Asks You, 'what's Punk?' My Reply Is, 'if You Have To Ask, You're Never Going To Know.'

Want A Good Body? Work At It. Want To Be A Success? Work At It. Want To Be Truly Exceptional? Be A Touch Insane... You Need A Little Bit Of Insanity To Do Great Things.

Youth Is Fleeting And Life Is Short, You Might As Well Strike Hard. Anything Else Is Just Average.

Everyone Who Knows Me Knows That I'm A Hopeless Romantic Who Listens To Love Ballads And Doo-wop Songs All The Time.

One Person's Disaster Is Another Person's Talking Point.

Bands Have Always Written Songs Against What They See As Wrong. Ronald Reagan Really Made For A Lot Of Songs.

Its No Surprise To Me That Anyone Hardly Tells The Truth About How They Feel. The Smart Ones Keep To Themselves For Good Reason. Why Would You Want To Tell Anyone Anything That's Dear To You? Even When You Like Them And Want Nothing More Than To Be Closer To Them? It's So Painful To Be Next To Someone You Feel So Strongly About And Know You Can't Say The Things You Want To.

I Like Boring Black And White Films With Subtitles. I'm Basically A Drip.

Black And White

Now, If Someone Wants To Spit On Me, I Just Roll Up The Window Of My Bmw 540i.

Where There Is Young People And Vitality, You're Going To Find Punk Rock.

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