Dexter Holland Quotes
Selling another 10 million albums is not a priority. Putting out something you're proud of is.
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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
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Kids are always going to be around people who break world records and that. It's how you deal with that. I never let it get in the way of my race, but I am always more than happy after the race to sign autographs and have photos.
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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I consider that 9/11 was the day when war was started against my own work and against myself. Even though we are not sure of the links, Iraq was one of the countries that did not lower its flags in mourning on 9/11.
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I work hard, I make my own living and I love it. I like having financial independence.
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My centre of who I thought I was was never very consciously about being beautiful or attractive - I think I'm one of those people who's actually grown into their looks.
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The most difficult story that I've ever been involved in breaking on any of my shows was 'The Constant' episode of 'Lost,' which was when Desmond was consciousness-traveling.
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Nothing escapes God's knowledge. This is proved by the witness of the Scriptures and the analogy of the sun, which, although created, yet by its light or heat enters into all things.
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I wrote 'Buried Child' in a trailer at an old ranch house we had in California.
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I think what you call 'metropolitan America' - as in San Francisco, New York and Los Angeles - I think there's more awareness of the atypical, while in more traditional Britain, there's the kitchen-sink dramas and thrillers. It's more formulaic.
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My parents taught me everything and set me up for life. I owe to them all the things I'm passionate about: music, art, the people I love, my career and family life, the fact that I have children and the way that I raise them.
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I don't talk in ifs.
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Likings arise when one has no earthly reason for liking - the most wildly improbable marriages and uncommon friendship.
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If the blood humor is too strong and robust, calm it with balance and harmony.
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It's all about sound. It's that simple.
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You can cite me for contempt, Your Honor. I don't care.
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I am thinking about launching a wine website where there is a deal and the crowd can dictate how cheap it can get.
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If you're a designer, there's got to be some films that you've seen that have inspired you creatively. There's no escaping that.
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I think I've become the brand ambassador of arranged marriages, especially for working Indian women.
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Instruments are a phenomenal investment, especially violins and violas and celli, because the value really doesn't go down, and it just rises up at incredible speed and has done, and I believe will continue to do so, because these rare instruments are not getting more. They are getting less and less through the years.
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Sickle cell does not have the priority in this country that it had in the 1960s, when I started working on it. Congress has been cutting everything that wasn't nailed down.
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The U.S. is not great at defense, but in my travels overseas, I realized that everyone else is even worse.
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I state in no uncertain terms: An order to uproot an Arab village or a Jewish settlement violates the most basic of human rights... It's a difficult dilemma.
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Selling another 10 million albums is not a priority. Putting out something you're proud of is.
