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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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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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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The key thing is that you start every film from sort of a blank page, almost like you discover it like a child discovers a new world.
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Yes, I grew up with guns. For my 16th birthday, in fact, I received a .357 instead of a car. But there was nothing playful about them; they were tools. My parents went through a back-to-the-land phase. Most of our vegetables and fruits came from our own garden.
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My tolerance for crazy people is, I think, high a tolerance as you're ever going to find. I love being around David Allen Coe. I would have loved to hang out with Tiny Tim. I can listen to Sun Ra on a tape-recording rant.
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I was always going to make music, but I cleaned up my act a lot just to be a good dad and a husband. That sort of changed my career professionally, too.
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If someone is going to criticize what you've written and you believe in what you've written then you should respond.
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The things I cook and eat on a regular basis are really inexpensive.
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Girls have girl/guy relationships because we are expected to be so emotional and sensitive and stuff, and sometimes you just don't feel like being that way.
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I truly believe fishing is like a washing machine for your brain
