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Henry Rollins' Letter to a Young American
Bigthink.com ^ | April 27, 2012 | Henry Rollins

Posted on 04/27/2012 6:46:42 AM PDT by Daffynition

http://bigthink.com/ideas/42675

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Henry Rollins: Young person, you’ll find in your life that sometimes your great ambitions will be momentarily stymied, thwarted, marginalized by those who were perhaps luckier, come from money, where more doors opened, where college was a given--it was not a student loan; it was something that Dad paid for--to where an ease and confidence in life was almost a birthright, where for you it was a very hard climb. Okay, that happens all the time. Some of the greatest Americans, some of the greatest thinkers, artists, architects, politicians and other movers, shakers and creators all over the world have come from very meager beginnings like my favorite American Abraham Lincoln. And so, just because you come from nothing you must not let that be something that holds you back.

And you will encounter people who never have to pay in full. They get to wreck the room and never have to clean it. They can get all the way through high school and never understand where a dollar comes from because they just get it given to them. I went to school with guys like that. You’ve had presidents like that. You’ve had friends like that and you’ve suffered.

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To: TheOldLady

“Ugliest woman I’ve evah seen!”

;D


21 posted on 04/27/2012 8:30:29 AM PDT by Salamander (Hey blood brother, you're one of our own. You're as sharp as a razor and as hard as a stone.)
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To: Salamander

He was in a movie with Charlie Sheen called the Chase and he played a cop with a show like Cops in his squade car, very funny character.


22 posted on 04/27/2012 9:25:37 AM PDT by crazydad
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To: Salamander

;-D


23 posted on 04/27/2012 9:36:52 AM PDT by TheOldLady (FReepmail me to get ON or OFF the ZOT LIGHTNING ping list)
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To: Daffynition

Screw Rollins. He’s a liberal POS and an idiot. He thinks he is a genus but he is very wrong.

His music sucks too.


24 posted on 04/27/2012 9:47:38 AM PDT by Jack Burton007 (This is Jack Burton in the Pork Chop Express, and I'm talkin' to whoever's listenin' out there.)
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