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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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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Why was the amendment, expressly declaring the right of the people to exclude slavery, voted down? Plainly enough now, the adoption of it would have spoiled the niche for the Dred Scott decision.
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It seems to me that the Swedish Academy of Science may be qualifying for the Nobel Peace Prize. It recognises no nationality; it discourages unworthy national feeling and prejudice.
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I touched Roger's bat and held it to my heart. My bat will lie next to his. I'm damn proud of that.
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Dress codes and gestures and attitudes have always inspired me, as has youth culture in general, although now I question it more. If you analyze youth cultures over history, there has always been something strict about them - you have to be like this or like that.
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So at the heart of all things is the germ of their overthrow; the closer you are to the heart, the closer to the reversal. Nowhere to go but down. You reach the core and then you're blown away.
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Selling another 10 million albums is not a priority. Putting out something you're proud of is.
