Joey Santiago Quotes

Doolittle was a major influence on the Seattle grunge scene, which emerged in the early 1990s.

Joey Santiago Pixies

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• I interviewed Johnny Knoxville once. I was kind of scared to interview him because I thought he might be a real jerk, but he was really nice, and I ripped his chest hair out.

  

  Rachel Perry
  • Real
  • Nice
  • Kind

• Sometimes I try a Mai Tai. It's so fruity. It's a little embarrassing, but I like it.

  

  J. Cole
  • Like
  • Sometimes
  • Try

• Back in 1999 and 2000, a few of us... a very few of us... Douglas Clegg, Seth Godin and I... offered free electronic copies of our books in an effort to reach an audience we otherwise wouldn't have reached and to test out a new marketing concept for books. Despite the industry screaming we were crazy, it worked.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Free
  • Crazy
  • Effort

• I introduced the Food Security Improvement Act in Congress to remedy the fact that most SNAP beneficiaries find themselves skipping meals or running out of benefits every month.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Food
  • Running
  • Improvement

• Thinking back to boyhood days, I remember the bright sun on Harlem streets, the easy rhythms of black and brown bodies, the sounds of children streaming in and out of red brick tenements.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Thinking
  • Children
  • Remember

• I think I'm probably quite geeky in a lot of ways. I'm pretty into books, kind of obsessive about that.

  

  Alice Eve
  • Pretty

• I always say one of the great scenes from 'The Dirty Dozen' is where Jim Brown has to get grenades in the chimney.

  

  Joe Russo
  • Great
  • Dirty

• I should think wrestling is the most positive thing in the world. The fact is, behind the scenes, there's stuff that goes on that's bush-league. It's laughable.

  

  Bill Goldberg
  • World
  • Positive
  • Wrestling

• I love CG - it's a great tool. I just don't think you should use it to replace reality; you should use it to augment and enhance. Do matte paintings, do composites, do replications, stuff like that, but you're taking something real and working with that as opposed to trying to fake it from scratch. The human brain can tell the difference.

  

  Neil Marshall
  • Great
  • Real
  • Trying

• Well as I said in France I didn't get auditions, and it's very difficult to get an agent in France because they conduct the business in a strange way.

  

  Berenice Marlohe
  • Business

• If I had the science and math capabilities, I would have liked to be a vet, but I don't! I don't have those capabilities.

  

  Carol Kane
  • Science
  • Math

• The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

  

  Plutarch
  • Mind
  • Fire

• I've become increasingly confidant in following intuitions ahead of thoughts as I produce more records.

  

  Jerry Harrison Talking Heads
  • Thoughts

• I think because I try to keep things as real as I can, or I try to start from a place of reality, I almost don't have the imagination to write a book that's not set where I am.

  

  Maria Semple
  • Real
  • Book
  • Reality

• Western countries are thoroughly accustomed to being the centre of global attention, which they have come to regard as their natural birthright. Not so China. It was thwarted in its attempt to hold the 2000 Olympics, which, as a result of American-led pressure, was awarded to Sydney.

  

  Martin Jacques
  • American
  • Attention

• I think police officers can work with social workers and public health nurses to do so much in terms of addressing the problem of American families, of children in American families as a whole, and giving them an opportunity to get off to a fresh start, to become self-sufficient, to lead safe, constructive lives.

  

  Janet Reno
  • Work
  • Children
  • American

• When you're a soul singer, I'm singing a lot of songs about love and relationships that I think a lot of girls really relate to. For whatever reason, that seems to get 'em excited. The DJ, everyone always says the DJ gets all the chicks, but that's never been my experience.

  

  Andrew Mayer Cohen
  • Experience
  • Soul
  • Singing

• Sinn Fein is committed to promoting and enhancing reconciliation, and in recent years, I and other members of my party have taken a number of significant initiatives aimed to advance this process.

  

  Martin McGuinness
  • Party
  • Taken

• My parents' convictions, when it came to discipline, were not very strong. For my bar mitzvah, I gave out a mix tape of '90s grunge - if you got it now, you would think it was the 'Singles' soundtrack.

  

  Adam Pally
  • Parents
  • Strong
  • Discipline

• What was interesting about grunge was that it was this death sentence to the rock that had preceded it, which was hair metal.

  

  Mike D The Beastie Boys
  • Death
  • Interesting
  • Rock

• Before I did comedy, I'd freestyle with all of my friends. In high school and into college, I recorded songs with my friends, not to perform but just to play for them. So I've had interest in music for a while. Early on, I'd host a lot of music open nights or hip-hop nights, so a lot of my early experience performing was around music.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Music
  • School
  • Experience

• As a Londoner I was able to see how the world of power and money cast its shadow on those who failed.

  

  Peter Ackroyd
  • World
  • Money
  • Power

• You don't need a pickup line. Just glance at a woman from across the room. Glance - don't stare.

  

  Jenny McCarthy

• Doolittle was a major influence on the Seattle grunge scene, which emerged in the early 1990s.

  

  Joey Santiago Pixies
  • Grunge