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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If the breaking news event has something to do with young people, specifically with MTV's audience, there was a higher chance that I would actually go cover it with a television camera instead of just write the story myself and read it on the air.
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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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It sends a bad message to kids. If you don't have a suit when you go to school, is the teacher going to think you're a bad kid?
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I vote far-left. I am frequently angered by corporate greed and think education ought to be free and teachers paid well.
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I prefer the saddle to the streetcar and star-sprinkled sky to a roof, the obscure and difficult trail, leading into the unknown, to any paved highway, and the deep peace of the wild to the discontent bred by cities. Do you blame me then for staying here, where I feel that I belong and am one with the world around me? It is true that I miss intelligent companionship, but there are so few with whom I can share the things that mean so much to me that I have learned to contain myself. It is enough that I am surrounded with beauty
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I believe in doing what I am best at.
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I truly believe fishing is like a washing machine for your brain