Dave Grohl Quotes

Rock stars are like sports stars: If you snap your ankle, you're done.

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• I just want my films to work. The hit or flop verdict really affects me. I seriously analyse what went wrong if a film turns out to be a dud!

  

  Samantha Ruth Prabhu
  • Work
  • Want
  • Me

• Anything that anybody wants to give me is great! I've had folk songs, heavy metal songs, jewellery... I would never call anything any fan gives me weird, as it's how people express what they like about the books, what it means to them, and that's a wonderful thing.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • People
  • Great
  • Songs

• But, I don't know, the violence, I can't even talk about. We don't do a lot of violent shows. When I started in television, breaking a pencil was a violent act.

  

  Aaron Spelling
  • Know
  • Violence
  • Television

• I am supposed to set an example to young players.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
  • Young
  • Players
  • Example

• If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • Life
  • Work
  • Day

• It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • People
  • Career
  • Media

• The people of South Africa are ready to stand up to the oppressions of the Pretoria regime, and they are ready to fight back.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • People
  • Up
  • Fight

• The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Men
  • Wish
  • Pain

• I trust no one - that microphone, that book.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Book
  • Trust
  • Microphone

• For almost a century since 1918, the centralised nation-state has been the world's default political form. Its various experiments in industrialisation, urbanisation, mass literacy and consumerism have brought more people into public life.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Action
  • Sleep
  • Information

• We, too, must change as circumstances evolve.

  

  Baldwin Spencer
  • Change
  • Evolve
  • Too

• If my client calls me and says, 'I'm going to a friend's premiere,' I'll say, 'Come over and let's do something cute.' And I won't bill them for that.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Me
  • Friend
  • Cute

• Close friends consider me a literary snob.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Friends
  • Me
  • Literary

• You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

  

  Vance Havner
  • Death
  • Know
  • Lost

• I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Different
  • Long
  • Think

• We should keep on going along the path of globalization. Globalization is good... when trade stops, war comes.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Good
  • War
  • Path

• Doing comedy is one of the best gifts in life.

  

  Mallory Jansen
  • Life
  • Comedy
  • Best

• I think most British people who say they can do an American accent are so bad at it. I find it excruciating. I find it excruciating the other way around, too.

  

  Eileen Atkins
  • People
  • American
  • Bad

• When you go to Pittsburgh, you always go to see Clemente. When the Pirates come to town, you always go to his hotel. And we just talk baseball all night.

  

  Orlando Cepeda
  • Night
  • Baseball
  • Pittsburgh

• I'm a huge fan of 'The Vampire Chronicles,' both the Neil Jordan film and the books themselves.

  

  Matt Bomer
  • Vampire

• I've done a great job at being universal in my stand-up, which is why, for 'Let Me Explain,' I toured all over the world. These movies I have coming out - 'Ride Along,' 'Grudge Match,' 'About Last Night,' 'Think Like a Man Too' - are putting me in a position to become universal on an even bigger scale.

  

  Kevin Hart
  • Up
  • World
  • Great

• It's good for me to be involved in different things.

  

  Chris Cornell Soundgarden
  • Good
  • Different

• Rock stars are like sports stars: If you snap your ankle, you're done.

  

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