Henry Winkler Quotes
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I live in Italy. I visit my family in Switzerland.
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The Silverlake Conservatory is a nonprofit music school in Los Angeles where we teach music, mostly to kids, but to people of all ages - people who are old, people with beards, all kinds of people.
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Those of us who are blessed, we owe it to our fellow citizens and folks who we are around to do something special for them.
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America is addicted to wars of distraction.
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As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
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Sometimes I read a really good script, and I just know that it's not a good fit.
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The trick to being a novelist is to act like an iceberg. Make it seem as if you're displaying only one-tenth of what you know, and the other nine-tenths isn't visible and never mind if that part is pure styrofoam!
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Every single unfortunate thing that happens, including, for instance, the murder of my parents, I am responsible for. I am responsible for being the son of two people who got murdered. I didn't cause their murder. But if I'm suffering because of it, it's my karma that I have manifested in this lifetime in this particular set of circumstances.
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On the sets, Ali Zafar was extremely entertaining... he would just start singing out of the blue. It was just great!
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Nantucket's English settlers, who first disembarked on the island in 1659, had been mindful of the sea's dangers. They had hoped to earn their livelihoods not as fishermen but as farmers and shepherds on this grassy isle dotted with ponds, where no wolves preyed.
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I have to believe that people can change, otherwise I deny the Gospel, and I will not do that.
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Ideally, I would like to play roles in as many classics as possible: 'Rebecca,' 'Hedda Gabler.' I'm fond of a corset.
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Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul.
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On my mother's side I'm Polish-Jewish, and on my father's side I'm Scottish puffin.
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Done right, precision can help clarify, plus it's fun.
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Questions don't easily die within me until they're answered, and so being able to write a song and put words to complex feelings is part of my process of understanding and letting go of things.
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Become addicted to constant and never-ending self-improvement.
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I'm a huge fan of the 'James Bond' genre.
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Women are totally unsafe in Punjab.
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Unless we believe that God renews creation every day, our prayers grow habitual and tedious.
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When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably.
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Only simple ideas can be held by large groups of people. Commonly held ideas are almost always dumbed down until they are practically lies... and often dangerous ones. Once vast numbers of people have come to believe the lie, they adjust their own behavior to bring themselves into sync with it, and thereby change the world itself. The world, then, no longer resembles the one that gave rise to the original insight. Soon, a person's situation is so at odds with the world as it really is that a crisis develops, and he or she must seek a new metaphor for explanation and guidance.
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Ten flashing lights are a nuisance but 500 are fantastic.
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I truly believe fishing is like a washing machine for your brain