Dexter Holland Quotes

There's something undeniably oxymoronic about a 'successful' rock n' roll band. Who wants to hear a bunch of success stories whining about their success? More importantly, what can be the drive behind a band, what can they have to rage against when they are successes? That's a dichotomy every successful band wrestles with.

Dexter Holland The Offspring

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• I've known I wanted to do this ever since I was a little kid and I used to get in trouble at church for goofing off all the time: mocking the preacher, imitating people and the things they did. I later learned my mother used to be just as goofy as I was when she was younger. I mean, Eddie Murphy in 'Coming to America?' My hero.

  

  Lamorne Morris
  • People
  • Time
  • She

• In 1949 - my father stayed on in Shanghai after the war. But in 1949, the Communists took over the whole of China, and in fact, my father was caught by the Communists in Shanghai. And he was there for about a year until he was finally able to get out.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • War
  • Father
  • Year

• Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Me
  • Hell
  • Shine

• I've always considered myself to be fiercely patriotic. I love Britain - its history and the down-to-earth attitude people have.

  

  Gary Numan
  • People
  • Love
  • History

• Being jealous of a beautiful woman is not going to make you more beautiful.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Beautiful
  • Beautiful Woman

• We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons.

  

  Gale Sayers
  • Stop
  • Building
  • Closing

• Evidence points out that if you raise tariffs too much it will increase smuggling.

  

  P. Chidambaram
  • You
  • Will
  • Too Much

• We are evolving as one species - not only as Americans, Syrians, Russians, Chinese, and jihadists. We cannot attack one without inflicting forms of violence and destruction upon ourselves. This is our new reality.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Reality
  • Violence
  • Chinese

• Apparently, Daniel Craig said I'd be a great Bond. Daniel, why did you say that? Dropped me right in it! What an honor it would be, but also, what an indication of change.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Great
  • Why
  • Change

• Devotion, as it relates to the title of my memoir, means fidelity - as in fidelity to a person or a practice. I think it's certainly possible to feel devotion without having faith, at least in the religious sense of the word.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Think
  • Faith
  • Religious

• A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade.

  

  Barnabe Barnes
  • World
  • Man
  • Die

• I like going to rifle and pistol clubs and joining them in target shooting. I also share the same respect for individual initiative and love of family.

  

  Nan Hayworth
  • Family
  • Respect
  • Like

• In 2010, I sold my car, a Toyota Majester, for just a lakh-and-a-half to be able to feed my horses. It continues to be like a hole, where I put all my money.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Money
  • Like
  • Car

• When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.

  

  Bayard Rustin
  • Society
  • Very
  • Dignity

• Making your first feature film is actually impossible.

  

  Yahoo Serious
  • Film
  • First
  • Impossible

• People win Oscars, and then it seems like they fall off the planet. And that's partly because a huge expectation walks in the room and sits right down on top of your head. The moment I won the Oscar, I felt the teardown the very next day.

  

  Halle Berry
  • People
  • Day
  • Fall

• There are many kids in and out of baseball who think that just because they have some natural talent, they have the world by the tail.

  

  Hack Wilson
  • World
  • Kids
  • Baseball

• At the beginning of the week, when we do our game planning, we look at the opponent and all the unique things they do.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Game
  • Beginning
  • Unique

• Just staying healthy, that is true wealth and true happiness.

  

  Jon Jones
  • True

• Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it.

  

  Richard Lamm
  • Christmas
  • Holiday
  • Message

• After karting in Venezuela, I came to Europe in 1998 to compete in international kart races, which was great for me to get experience racing outside my country. After consistently being at the top, I decided to move to Italian Formula Renault.

  

  Pastor Maldonado
  • Country
  • Experience
  • Italian

• I don't want my faith level to go up or down. And so I don't fear.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • Up
  • Want
  • Fear

• There's something undeniably oxymoronic about a 'successful' rock n' roll band. Who wants to hear a bunch of success stories whining about their success? More importantly, what can be the drive behind a band, what can they have to rage against when they are successes? That's a dichotomy every successful band wrestles with.

  

  Dexter Holland The Offspring
  • Success
  • Band
  • Rock