Dave Grohl Quotes
Joining a band without ever having really met the people before, you just want to be musically powerful.Dave Grohl Nirvana
Quotes to Explore
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Recruiting is the hardest part of any business, but in charity, it is 10 times harder.
Manoj Bhargava -
Our planet's lands and oceans are already stretched to meet the demands of 7 billion people. The human population continues to grow. The search for sustainable solutions is an economic and a moral imperative if we are to create the future we want.
Ban Ki-moon -
The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.
Bear Grylls -
I make big objects that are simple, bright and clear, kind of ironic but hopefully funny because I love the shapes, and I get inspiration from toys and books, and I believe in art for everyone.
Florentijn Hofman -
You count a man's U.S. Amateur titles after he starts winning professional majors. That's something any intelligent golf writer with a sense of history is supposed to know.
Dan Jenkins -
I have great admiration for the way the Americans do business. They drive a hard bargain, but once they do it, they stick to their contracts.
Raghav Bahl
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A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.
Edith Hamilton -
It might be useful to distinguish between pleasure and joy. But maybe everybody does this very easily, all the time, and only I am confused.
Zadie Smith -
Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that's often true of creative tasks - when you have something complex to deal with in writing or research or responding to an email. I'll start working, put it aside, and sometimes I'll wake up the next morning with a solution, or I'll find one when I exercise.
Adam Grant -
India is at the vanguard of figuring out how to exploit technology and innovation on behalf of democratic accountability.
Samantha Power -
My parents, Gary and Patricia, let me be in my world. They never told me what I couldn't do. It helped me adapt in a positive way.
Candis Cayne -
I'm an actor, and I'm supposed to reflect real people.
Tamsin Greig
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Obviously, after every film you do, you wonder what you're going to do next.
Madhur Mittal -
Quarterback is not a position that you come in having not played it your whole life.
Warren Moon -
Workers in decent jobs view the economy as unjust if they or their children have virtually no chance of climbing to a higher rung in the socioeconomic ladder.
Edmund Phelps -
All women and girls have the fundamental right to live free of violence. This right is enshrined in international human rights and humanitarian law. And it lies at the heart of my UNiTE to End Violence against Women campaign.
Ban Ki-moon -
I think by eighth grade I knew I wanted to be an actor. I'd done church plays and stuff, but my first actual acting class was in eighth grade. I was obsessed with it.
Aaron Paul -
The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform... But it is likely to exert an indirect and reciprocal influence on science itself.
Ada Lovelace
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Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man. She will have nothing from him who will not give her all. She knows that his pretended love serves but to betray. But when once the fierce heat of her quenchless, lustrous eyes has burned into the victim's heart, he will know no other smile but hers.
Clarence Darrow -
I've always had a bazillion songs in my archive, but I want to play people stuff they know. Now that I have two albums' worth of material, that gives me freedom to compose a set that's more well-balanced and build a show rather than just a recital of some songs.
Kate Voegele -
A ramrobot had been the first to see Mount Lookitthat. Ramrobots had been first visitors to all the settled worlds. The interstellar ramscoop robots, with an unrestricted fuel supply culled from interstellar hydrogen, could travel between stars at speeds approaching that of light.
Larry Niven -
African narratives in the West, they proliferate. I really don't care anymore. I'm more interested in the stories we tell about ourselves - how, as a writer, I find that African writers have always been the curators of our humanity on this continent.
Chris Abani -
Like most playwrights, I hate talkbacks with a passion that can burn a hole through hell.
Katori Hall -
Joining a band without ever having really met the people before, you just want to be musically powerful.
Dave Grohl Nirvana