Dave Grohl Quotes
At school where you a dunce or a teacher's pet? All of the above. I was stupid so they thought I was cute.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
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I think punditry serves no purpose.
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When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
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Whenever someone says to me, 'Are you for or against Common Core,' the first question I ask is, 'What do you think Common Core is?' You will get a different answer from every single person. You will literally get a different answer.
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You can do anything as long as you have the passion, the drive, the focus, and the support.
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To win the cause we all believe in, the spread of true democracy all over the world, we need to win by example, not just with speeches but by example; not just with military might but by gaining the respect of the world.
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When budget cuts happen - which has been happening a lot in this country - after-school athletics and after-school music are some of the first things to go.
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Before I had a record deal, I was living in New York and playing anywhere I could, from somebody's house to an open mic to coffeeshops.
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I felt that a number of people might have questioned my loyalty, but I continue to be a patriotic American.
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For my money, when you're doing an on-camera performance, unless it's for something particularly stylised, you are, by and large, striving for naturalism.
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Mo Udall didn't want the presidency bad enough. He was too sane. He was a marvelous guy, but you had the feeling there was another Udall outside his body watching the candidate Udall who was too extravagant, telling him to cut it out.
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Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
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I am really bad with cleaning my closet.
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Don't be afraid to look silly.
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I don't want to talk too much about the nitty-gritty of writing. It's rather like a pressure cooker with a certain amount of pressure in it - the more you let out, the less you cook.
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My musical career was an accident.
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In other words, the celebrity gets out of hand, and if you're not careful, you will forget what you are about - and that is you are about making music that people want to hear.
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I wasn't the most prodigiously talented cricketer in Karnataka, let alone India. Some of my team-mates in my school team could hit the ball cleaner than I do. I had to work through that lack of talent, so to speak, that lack of natural flair. Runs never came easy for me.
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I didn't get lessons of any kind I slept through school.
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In secondary school I was floating - I wasn't passionate about anything. I did a little sport, but it was pretty joyless because the competitiveness was too much to bear.
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When people use their hurt and make a triumph in their song, that helps other people.
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At school where you a dunce or a teacher's pet? All of the above. I was stupid so they thought I was cute.
