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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• 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!

  

  Manika
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Secret

• Well who's black and what is a black person?

  

  Pam Grier
  • Black
  • Person
  • Well

• 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.

  

  Ralph Brown
  • World
  • Mind
  • Thought

• People think, 'Jack, you do too much.'

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Think
  • Too Much

• 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.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • World
  • Sports
  • Soccer

• A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Create
  • Go

• 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.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Control
  • Older
  • Freak

• At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Look
  • Hide
  • Eighteen

• As goes California, so goes the rest of the nation.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Rest
  • California
  • Nation

• 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.

  

  Eddie Campbell
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Guy

• I think it's fun to get in a room and sweat with people. I'm happy to share my workouts with everyone.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Happy
  • Fun

• One of the greatest gifts I've ever gotten is my daughter.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Daughter
  • Greatest
  • Gifts

• 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.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • World
  • Cool
  • Drama

• 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.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Long
  • Think
  • Missing

• 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.

  

  Karan Singh Grover
  • Never
  • Mark
  • Restricted

• The truth is I had lots of rehab and now I have a clean bill of health.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Truth
  • Health
  • Truth Is

• Music video played a huge role in developing my sensibility as a director.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Music
  • Director
  • Video

• I find the presence of the sea quite inspiring, and sometimes I do just get out and walk around and take in the sea breeze to try and clear my mind.

  

  Garth Nix
  • Mind
  • Sea
  • Walk

• If you think people are against you and that you're a target, things will start appearing that way. I just go about my day, and I don't think anyone is out to get me.

  

  Halima Aden
  • People
  • Day
  • Start

• The truth of the matter is - and I'm always a bit reluctant to say this because people think you're a bit unfeeling. The truth of this, on 9/11, people who - myself and others - were so unbelievably focused on what was happening that we were, for many, many hours, I think, spared the agony of loss.

  

  Peter Jennings
  • People
  • Truth

• I think streaming, in general, is democratising music in general.

  

  Lauv
  • Music
  • General
  • Streaming

• You'll see me on 'Top Chef' someday. My Midwestern hospitality needs an outlet, you know?

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Know
  • Me
  • See

• 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.

  

  Dave Pirner
  • World
  • Music
  • Giving