Dave Grohl Quotes

After 10 years, I have been touring for 20, playing basically the same type of music, a four-piece or three-piece type of music with loud, crashing drums and screaming vocals. It gets to the point where you're looking for something new, and you don't want to do something that's way too left-field, for fear that it might seem contrived.

Dave Grohl Nirvana

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• It is essential to link enterprises on the basis of objective laws of a socialist economy and legal system.

  

  Samora Machel
  • Economy
  • Laws
  • Legal

• After 'Sesame Street,' it's a hyper-familiar world to me and I have this childlike ability to ignore the fact that I'm talking to scraps of cloth. Every country I go to, I see posters promoting the film in different languages. 'Los Muppets' - I love that!

  

  Feist
  • World
  • Country
  • Ignore

• We need a wireless mobile device ecosystem that mirrors the PC/Internet ecosystem, one where the consumers' purchase of network capacity is separate from their purchase of the hardware and software they use on that network. It will take government action, or some disruptive technology or business innovation, to get us there.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Business
  • Action
  • Technology

• I don't Twitter, although sometimes I think that I should.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Think
  • Sometimes
  • Twitter

• Political correctness means nothing to me. Nothing. It's the new Puritanism, darling. Preventing us from expressing ourselves.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Political
  • Expressing
  • Darling

• Excellence is a process that should occupy all our days.

  

  Ted Engstrom
  • Process
  • Excellence
  • Days

• Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Me
  • Hell
  • Shine

• Unfortunately, we have seen terrorist groups use social media to spread hateful propaganda, to recruit members, and to incite violence with alarming effectiveness.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Violence
  • Social Media

• The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • World
  • Future
  • Humanity

• That's why I'm really trying to produce my own stuff. This film was so good, because I produced it myself, and developed it, and made it with New Line, which is a smaller studio, so I was in control of a lot of stuff that I wasn't in control of for my other films.

  

  Ted Demme
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Why

• Don't try to be like somebody else. You'll be miserable. You need to be yourself, and don't ever get a big head.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Yourself
  • Try
  • Be Yourself

• I found college useful for a lot of other reasons. It exposed me to a great many influences I wouldn't otherwise have encountered, and gave me a lot of time with some very intelligent people whose thoughts are still with me.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• 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

• The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.

  

  Sallust
  • Beauty
  • Wealth
  • Intellectual

• Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Community
  • Value
  • Moment

• I did some good things as a rookie.

  

  Earl Campbell
  • Good
  • Good Things
  • Rookie

• I'm not very good with stills. I get all twitchy.

  

  Saffron Burrows
  • Good
  • Very
  • Get

• There is no real agreement among scholars as to whether Homer and Hesiod were contemporaries or whether Homer came a hundred or so years later or earlier. How could there be, given that both poets recited and sang in an oral culture.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Real
  • Culture
  • Years

• The basis of our partnership strategy and our partnership approach: We build the social technology. They provide the music.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg
  • Music
  • Technology

• I grew up thinking that my family was normal. But I always was terrified of my dad. I never felt cared for by him. He never hit me as hard as he did my siblings, but I have a pervasive sense of fear.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Fear
  • My Family
  • My Dad

• I've always enjoyed real work more than schoolwork. My mother will attest to that - she was always concerned about me academically.

  

  David Ulevitch
  • Work
  • Real
  • She

• I totally wouldn't mind being able to wave my hand head to toe and have, like, a whole new outfit.

  

  Katherine Heigl
  • Mind
  • Hand

• I tell my son Corey that the greatest teacher is the teacher who says, 'Don't follow me; follow yourself. Because within you there is that kingdom, that life, that force.'

  

  Billy Dee Williams
  • Life
  • Son
  • Teacher

• After 10 years, I have been touring for 20, playing basically the same type of music, a four-piece or three-piece type of music with loud, crashing drums and screaming vocals. It gets to the point where you're looking for something new, and you don't want to do something that's way too left-field, for fear that it might seem contrived.

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
  • Music
  • Fear
  • Drums