Dexter Holland Quotes
Punk rock wasn't a career choice. It was a hobby that we did for fun. We never thought we'd get as big as our idols in T.S.O.L. or certainly not the Ramones.
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My family loves to take me out, and we do regular things like go to the movies. My friends do that as well. At the same time, I love work and I want to be busy all the time!
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When I'm in the studio, I don't finish the song and say, 'That's going to be a big ringtone.'
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I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie.
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I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.
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I like being my age. I kind of have a political thing about it.
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I've been called Mr. Patient Money because I have the patience to work through challenging circumstances.
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My fans are so loving and encouraging. They're with me on good days and bad days.
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My style is schizophrenic! One minute I'll be wearing bright girly dresses, and the next I'll be swinging towards more structured masculine things.
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Way back when I was a junior pastry chef, I'd bake loads of muffins every morning, as many as 120 or so, while operating on autopilot.
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In midlife, we're as dumb as we get.
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I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.
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I am always worried when someone says, 'This is perfect.'
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Thou shalt not give birth reluctantly.
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Yes, women should be free to cover their faces when walking down the street. But in our schools, hospitals, airports, banks and civil institutions, it is not unreasonable - nor contrary to the teachings of Islam - to expect women to show the one thing that allows the rest of us to identify them... namely, their face.
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I'm now convinced that I'm a doctor. I mean, if someone says they have a pain, I'm like, 'Well, that's your spleen.'
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I don't know whether I want to improve religion or not. I prefer to get rid of it.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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Too many films today feel formulaic and familiar. I prefer it when the familiar is made to feel strange.
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It has been my experience that if we make the effort to listen to people when we meet them, and work to get to know them a little, it is then easy to find something likeable in practically anyone.
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They were heading out to the middle of the bay - the Gulf - that's another thing that became kind of standard practice, we didn't hurry the destroyers around the beach any more, when it got dark, we'd take 'em out thirty or forty miles out in the middle of the Tonkin Gulf.
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I remember once being told by a casting person, years ago, that I shouldn't pursue a career in the business because of the color of my skin. The fact that I remember it today means it stuck with me. I thought that was really stupid advice and advice nobody should ever give someone.
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Punk rock wasn't a career choice. It was a hobby that we did for fun. We never thought we'd get as big as our idols in T.S.O.L. or certainly not the Ramones.
