Dave Grohl Quotes
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Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.
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Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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There's an unintended consequence when it comes to drone attacks in Yemen. Yeah, you take out the al-Qaida stronghold, but you also wipe out the other half of the block. That makes Yemenis against the United States for the rest of their lives and all their descendants.
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I don't want to do anything like Can't Hardly Wait, I don't want to do anything like Scream. I saw all those movies, and they were good, but they're just not what I want to do.
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Once you're a Virginian, you're always a Virginian.
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Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident.
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The longer you're on a show like 'SNL,' the less frequent the Google alerts become.
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Nobody in France would ever say 'He's a Jewish novelist' or 'She's a black novelist,' even though people do write about those subjects. It would look absurd to a French person to go into a bookstore and see a 'Gay Studies' section.
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I have never gotten a B in my life. I would honestly be mortified if I got a B. I'm so academically driven.
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I feel lucky to be getting older. The fact that I made it to 30 and then 40 was big enough. So I can't get too down on getting older; otherwise, it kind of undoes everything I've fought for.
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People are intimidated in court, and I try to make them more comfortable.
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When we began Qualcomm, it had become quite clear that it was very important to patent new ideas.
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Days are long when you're filming, so I catch up on sleep during breaks to avoid looking tired.
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The fighter loses more than his pride in the fight; he loses part of his future. He's a step closer to the slum he came from.
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TV ushered in the age of postliteracy. And we have gone so far beyond that. I mean, what with the Internet and Google and Wikipedia. We have entered the age of post-intelligence.
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There isn't a person on Earth who couldn't use a connection with nature.
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A deal is like chasing a girl. You work on it until she says, 'Yes,' for a date.
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Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.
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'Thenceforth they thought that, rationally concluded, doubt could become an instrument of knowledge.'
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We eat the same breakfast every day. We are like robots. I always do two eggs over easy with turkey bacon - we enjoy the taste of it more than pork - and avocado. I carve it all up into a bowl so it's like a slop, and I load it with salt and pepper and Cholula.
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Maybe I'll work for a label someday, write some fiction, nonfiction. Someday I'd like to go back to school and get my teaching degree. I want to be a grandpa. I want to have more kids.
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I never know where I am going, though. That is part of what makes it so wonderful. And after all, who does?
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My songwriting is like extending a hand to the listener.
