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 never left a set until we'd trashed it.
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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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In North Korea, we learnt all Americans are the enemy; they are not human.
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We are trying to teach literature and literacy in a society which doesn't value it any more.
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And one would worship a woman whom all perfections dower, But the other smiles at transparent wiles; and he quotes from Schopenhauer. Thus two by two we wrangle and blunder about the earth, And that body we share we may not spare; but the Gods have need of mirth.
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It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.
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My songwriting is like extending a hand to the listener.
