Dave Grohl Quotes
To me the most important thing is getting into a studio and making an album that is 12 or 14 amazing songs, getting up onstage, and making people happy by livening the rock.
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Second place is just the first place loser.
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Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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In occupied Iraq, the introduction of new paper money took almost a year, 20 or so Boeing 747s, the mobilisation of the U.S. military's might, three printing firms, and hundreds of trucks.
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Suspicion and doubt lead to animosity and hatred.
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Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
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Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.
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There's a group of people - maybe the secular Taliban is a good name for them - who have morphed this idea, that you have to accept my values being every bit as cherished as your values. That's not tolerance... There are too many things in this world which we sit back and tolerate.
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I want to see Brian Williams with no irony wearing a mustache.
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The quality of TV, I think, is at an all-time high. The problem with it is the way that we end up consuming it - generally a cable box. A satellite receiver is, to me, nothing more than a glorified VCR.
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I just like putting outfits together without much thought and seeing what the outcome is.
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As a parent, it's my responsibility to equip my child to do this - to grieve when grief is necessary and to realize that life is still profoundly beautiful and worth living despite the fact that we inevitably lose one another and that life ends, and we don't know what happens after death.
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You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
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The M-1 is the best tank in the world, if you can get it to the war in time, if you have a Saddam Hussein who'll give you seven months to move your forces in.
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Manners is the key thing. Say, for instance, when you're growing up, you're walking down the street, you've got to tell everybody good morning. Everybody. You can't pass one person.
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Isn't it amazing how much stuff we get done the day before vacation?
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Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
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I studied literature and Italian at Yale. I wrote my thesis about Italo Svevo, one of my heroes.
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The very beginning of European aesthetics started from Florence. Everything here was beauty, money, and creativity, the power of the good money.
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Second, when comparing private school and public school test scores, it's like apples and oranges. Public schools have to take everyone, but private schools can be selective. It's not accurate or fair to compare the job they do.
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First, I'd become an avid reader of blogs, especially music blogs, and they seemed to be where the critical-thinking action was at, to have the kind of energy that I associate with rock writing of the 1970s or Internet e-mail discussion lists a decade ago.
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And to me it seems that you have fallen asleep upon a white rock, and in a parish of dreams, and have dreamt all this in a moment while it was night.
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To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.
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To me the most important thing is getting into a studio and making an album that is 12 or 14 amazing songs, getting up onstage, and making people happy by livening the rock.
