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• My first instrument was actually the trombone, but that didn't last long. Soon I was playing guitar in bands from the time I was 11 or 12.

  Dave Grohl

  Guitar, Firsts, Band

  "A Few Good Foos from a FOO FIGHTER". Interview with Ray Rogers, www.interviewmagazine.com. May, 1997.

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• I had long hair since I was 17 years old. It was time for me to let go. I hated being the guy at the wedding in a suit with a ponytail.

  Dave Grohl

  Letting Go, Hair, Years

  "A Few Good Foos from a FOO FIGHTER". Interview with Ray Rogers, www.interviewmagazine.com. May, 1997.

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• You can't just say, "I'm gonna have style." You have to work at it. It's intuitive; some people have it, and some people can work on it all day long, and it will never happen.

  Iris Apfel

  People, Style, Happens

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A long time ago, I made a promise to myself: "Okay, you know what? I'm going to play music, and hopefully I'll make enough money that I can go back to school. Once I make enough money to put myself through school, that's what I'm going to do."

  Dave Grohl

  School, Play, Promise

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. August 9, 2006.

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• When you go from movie to movie, it's like going from family to family. You work with people for really intense hours on really long days and a bond happens. So even when a movie is terrible, you love it.

  Matthew Lillard

  People, Intense, Hours

  "Matthew Lillard on growing up". Interview with Sonia Saraiya, www.avclub.com. September 10, 2014.

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• I can get bored with any show, when it goes on too long.

  Cam Gigandet

  Bored, Goes On, Shows

  Source: collider.com

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• Time marches on and I don't care how people watch my movies as long as they see them. I don't care if they're on their phone.

  John Waters

  Phones, People, Watches

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• What I like to think, and perhaps it is an adolescent thought, is that anything can happen. As long as you think that anything can happen, it will. We're all allowed to have our dreams.

  Anjelica Huston

  Dream, Thinking, Anything Can Happen

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't think a lot of people listen to their old stuff, do they? I spent a long time making it, so I don't really want to spend much time listening to it again.

  Kate Bush

  Thinking, People, Listening

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. May 16, 2011.

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• I know I shall not live very long... If I've painted three good pictures, then I shall leave gladly with flowers in my hand and my hair.

  Paula Modersohn-Becker

  Flower, Hair, Hands

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• My zest for exhibition has over a long career become increasingly a mania. The ecstasy I feel as I survey work I have done I want to share with the world - not the whole world which couldn't care less, but my private world, which is my country, Canada.

  Joseph Plaskett

  Country, Zest, Careers

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• Sometimes I'd like everybody who is stuck, or lost, or vacant to stay that way and keep silent for as long as it takes, but that's the critic in me talking.

  David Toop

  Talking, Way, Sometimes

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• Surprisingly, Gestalt psychologists have found that when subjected to Ganz fields for long periods of time, we hallucinate. Can empty fields serve as mirrors, not for our exteriors, but for our interiors?

  John Paul Caponigro

  Mirrors, Gestalt, Fields

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• There is value in long years of obscurity, if one doesn't go insane or suicidal, in that, simply because nobody is looking, the habit of fooling around and trying things out gets ingrained.

  Jules Olitski

  Suicidal, Years, Insane

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• When I left SEIU, we had started this quality public service agenda to say to our members what I think the United Auto Workers learned: that quality is our only job security in the long run.

  Andy Stern

  Running, Jobs, Thinking

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• Drink whatever you like, just so long as it coordinates with your nail varnish.

  Victoria Beckham

  Nails, Drink, Coordinates

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• Another observation, in a former letter of yours, has not escaped my remembrance – the three lessons which a minister has to learn: 1. Humility. 2. Humility. 3. Humility. How long are we learning the true nature of Christianity!

  Charles Simeon

  Humility, Remembrance, Three

  Charles Simeon (1848). “Memoirs of the Life of the Rev. Charles Simeon, Late Senior Fellow of King's College and Minister of Trinity Church, Cambridge: With a Selection from His Writings and Correspondence”, p.60

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• When setting a long-term goal, find the pace necessary to achieve it.

  Rickson Gracie

  Goal, Pace, Achieve

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• I think the kicks in Wing Chun are enough. It´s much easier to use your hands than to use your feet. Your hand is able to reach your opponent long before your foot. Why take the long way to attack (circle), when there is a much more direct method of attack? If you are using your hands, then your opponent can´t see a kick coming if you have to use it. When you teach Kung Fu, you can fool a lot of people, but not yourself. You can make like a movie and do many complicated movements and kicks, but you only fool yourself as to whether that would work in a real situation of life and death.

  Wong Shun Leung

  Real, Thinking, Hands

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• Teachers say to me, 'The internet is full of rubbish, wrong answers.' But you would be surprised how just long it takes to find wrong information on Google, and where it's not obvious that it's wrong.

  Sugata Mitra

  Teacher, Google, Would Be

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• I have never let gender get in my way. It has taken me over 30 years to get from a garage to the huge campus that we have today. And it's been a long journey.

  Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

  Taken, Journey, Years

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• It is convenient for the old men to blame Eve. To insist we are damned because a country girl talked to the snake one afternoon long ago. Children must starve in Somalia for that, and old women be abandoned in our greatest cities. It’s why we will finally be thrown into the lakes of molten lead. Because she was confused by happiness that first time anyone said she was beautiful. Nevertheless, she must be the issue, so people won’t notice that rocks and galaxies, mathematics and rust are also created in His image.

  Jack Gilbert

  Beautiful, Girl, Country

  Jack Gilbert (2012). “Collected Poems”, p.382, Knopf

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• I am pro-expression. I am pro - you know, as long as you don't hurt anyone.

  Tommy Wiseau

  Hurt, Expression, Knows

  "Conversations with a Cult (Film) Director Tommy Wiseau". Interview with Eric Ravenscraft, gawker.com. August 19, 2010.

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• The key is that unless there is accountability, we will never get the right system. As long as there are no consequences if kids or adults don't perform, as long as the discussion is not about education and student outcomes, then we're playing a game as to who has the power.

  Albert Shanker

  Kids, Keys, Games

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• Lying and cheating in advertising, in the long run, are commercial suicide. Dishonesty in advertising destroys not only confidence in advertising, but also in the medium which carries the dishonest advertisement. . . . No one can be ill in a community without endangering others; no advertiser can be dishonest without casting suspicion upon others.

  Daniel Starch

  Suicide, Running, Cheating

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