Dave Sitek Quotes

I think I tried on the hardcore scene's outfits maybe once, and then I just figured I'd stick to Hawaiian shirts.

Dave Sitek Jane's Addiction

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• I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • People
  • Funny
  • Laugh

• Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Hope
  • Joy
  • Failure

• Critics should think about how the opening weekend audience might want to discover some surprises for themselves.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Think
  • Want
  • Weekend

• With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Everything
  • Possible
  • Begins

• English superiority and American obedience.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • American
  • English

• Here's to the next insurrection of the negroes in the West Indies.

  

  Samuel Johnson

• vagueness is a 'romantic' value.. ..an emphasis on geometry is an emphasis on the 'known', on order and knowledge.

  

  Ad Reinhardt
  • Knowledge
  • Value
  • Romantic

• He calls his extravagance, generosity; and his trusting everybody, universal benevolence.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Generosity

• Plumbing is usually boring.

  

  Alex Berenson

• Kinsey himself collected absolutely everything.

  

  Bill Condon

• I'm just a hard worker, and I think that you don't need to have age to be a hard worker.

  

  Brynn Cartelli
  • Age

• For years and years, people would say, 'The business is changing.' And I would say, 'The business is not changing. It's exactly the same as it was in the '70s, the '80s and the '90s.' But all of a sudden, the business changed, and it really did change.

  

  Kevin Bacon
  • People
  • Business

• I'm very social, and in a place like New York, even if you're alone on the subway, you never feel lonely.

  

  Ana Gasteyer
  • Alone
  • Lonely

• I normally feel relief that I didn't die onstage or forget all my lines. Then I start remembering that I have to do it again sometime, and it'll probably not go as well.

  

  Amy Hoggart
  • Die

• My seven-year-old daughter knows old songs and how the neighborhoods got their names. There are little things: Businesses receive blessings from Hawaiian priests before opening, and everyone's kids have their debut luau. You can't really get through a day without doing something Hawaiian.

  

  Kaui Hart Hemmings
  • Kids
  • Daughter
  • Hawaiian

• There are so many myths out there about Marianne Faithfull, I had to, um, detach. But I can turn it on because Marianne Faithfull is really an attitude, you know.

  

  Marianne Faithfull
  • Attitude

• I write so that people will read what I write. I don't want to write a book that a thousand people read, or just privileged people read. I want to write a book whose emotional truth people can understand. For me, that's what it's about.

  

  Ann Hood
  • People
  • Book
  • Truth

• I saw 'Rolling Stone' magazine once, and they were talking about the top 50 songs, and there wasn't one Sly song; how does that happen? But, Sly isn't the type to brown nose for props. He's always known what he had, what he was capable of; I'm just proud that he took the time and effort to put it to music.

  

  Cynthia Robinson
  • Time
  • Music
  • Song

• Nearly every president in the past 100 years has declared national monuments, from Teddy Roosevelt creating the Grand Canyon National Monument to George W. Bush preserving 10 islands and 140,000 square miles of ocean waters in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Past
  • Ocean
  • Creating

• I started to sing like myself - as opposed to imitating Nat Cole, which I had done for a while - when I started singing like Ray Charles, it had this spiritual and churchy, this religious or gospel sound. It had this holiness and preachy tone to it. It was very controversial. I got a lot of criticism for it.

  

  Ray Charles
  • Done
  • Religious
  • Singing

• No one will ever accuse James Carville of taking himself seriously.

  

  James Carville

• My dream became bigger and bigger. And the box got bigger than the message, than the Gospel.

  

  Jim Bakker
  • Dream

• I loved music, and in my ninth year at MIT, I decided to buy a hi-fi set. I figured that all I needed to do was look at the specifications. So I bought what looked like the best one, turned it on, and turned it off in five minutes, the sound was so poor.

  

  Amar Bose
  • Music

• I think I tried on the hardcore scene's outfits maybe once, and then I just figured I'd stick to Hawaiian shirts.

  

  Dave Sitek Jane's Addiction
  • Hawaiian