Dave Pirner Quotes
Music is not a contest, it's not a competition, so giving out trophies seems a little bit like the sporting world I left behind when I was a kid.
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Your body is your temple, it's your home, and you must decorate it.
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I wrote my first book when I was 15 years old. And my second book '1,2,3 Publish Me!' shows everyone how writing a book is done in just the three secret editing levels I discovered!
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Well who's black and what is a black person?
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When they offered me 'Wayne's World 2,' they said: 'We were going to give this to another actor, then we thought we'd see you'. I just thought: 'Surely you always had me in mind for that just in the way that it's written?', but they never admitted it. It was a wonderful gig to do. Really special.
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People think, 'Jack, you do too much.'
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I've never met anybody who says they don't like the World Cup. If you're a soccer fan or not, everybody loves watching it, and I think it could be the same for other sports.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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I am definitely a perfectionist, and I do like things a certain way. But as I have got older, I would say that I am a little bit less of a control freak.
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At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
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As goes California, so goes the rest of the nation.
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I remember having an argument with Alan, I said the Queen's not just going to call the guy up and send him out to do it. And Alan says, well, how would a monarch give orders to her assassin.
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I think it's fun to get in a room and sweat with people. I'm happy to share my workouts with everyone.
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One of the greatest gifts I've ever gotten is my daughter.
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With 'The Social Network,' I got into it at first because frankly I thought there was a cool courtroom drama to be had with the intellectual properties. And then what further drew me in was that the most extraordinary social networking device ever created was created by the world's most antisocial person. I liked that story.
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I missed the television train at some point. I don't know what happened, but now I've created a complex about it. I'm missing out on what everybody's watching, and now I can't even begin to think about starting to watch a television show because it's been so long. I don't even have a Netflix account.
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Saudi had been a very restricted place. Even on the magazines there, if there was a little leg or cleavage showing, they used to blacken it with a black mark. Me and Ishmeet, so many times, had tried to remove the black portion with our spit, but of course, it would never come out.
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The truth is I had lots of rehab and now I have a clean bill of health.
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Music video played a huge role in developing my sensibility as a director.
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The Nobel Prize gives one the opportunity to take public stands.
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‘You cheated.’ ‘No, I exploited a weakness in my opponent. There is a difference.’
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The world that we live in isn't uniform-looking, and the future that we're headed toward isn't uniform-looking.
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I'm a paleoanthropologist, and my job is to define man's place in nature and explore what makes us human.
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I'm fascinated by people who have to reinvent themselves. I did it a few times - I was going to be a physicist before I was passionate about philosophy - and I realized that one more change, and I'm going to start looking like a dilettante.
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Music is not a contest, it's not a competition, so giving out trophies seems a little bit like the sporting world I left behind when I was a kid.
