Like many other touchstones of twenty-first-century pop culture, 'The Sopranos' was hatched in the late Nineties, predicting a future that never arrived. It was designed for a decade that would be just like the Nineties, except more so, in an America that enjoyed seeing itself as smarter and braver and freer than ever before.
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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES I miss the silliness of the Nineties. What would society be like if 9/11 never happened? If that sil... DOUGLAS COUPLAND Here is one fact 1 minute to finish the class, 1 day to die, one day behind that fact, one day in th... DEYTH BANGER I remember in the early nineties people saying the hat was just for old women, but that's ridicu... PHILIP TREACY I love the Nineties because more than any other period of time, there was such an eclectic mix of st... CHARLI XCX I really like the Nineties! I want to bring back more of the Nineties, like the 'Spice Girls'... POPPY DELEVINGNE The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a... ARUNDHATI ROY When I first moved to London for university, I was already a big fan of Diesel because, in the ninet... NICOLA FORMICHETTI Like 'Twin Peaks,' '24,' 'Mad Men,' and 'The Sopranos' before it, ... JAMES WOLCOTT Everything said about Gen Xers--both positive and negative--was completely true. Twenty-somethings i... CHUCK KLOSTERMAN English television from the Fifties to the Nineties was the least bad in the world, and now it's... JOHN CLEESE During my last voyage to America, I enjoyed the happiness of seeing that revolution completed, and, ... MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE People who pretend to be your friend lead you up a garden path by saying everything that you want to... GARY F EVANS... My first job in NYC was playing a gig in the early nineties at CBGBs. JAMES IHA I like a little movie I did in the early nineties called 'Mortal Thoughts.' The part was har... BRUCE WILLIS In the first decade of the twenty-first century, the major international question was the relation b... NOAH FELDMAN The first thing I went out for was 'The Sopranos' and I got it, so that's how it happene... VANESSA FERLITO I just finished an episode of a new show called 'Century City.' It's like 'Law &... CAYDEN BOYD There was a clarity to the Nineties. It was pre-9/11, before that anxiety kicked in that exists righ... CARRIE BROWNSTEIN My mama never wore a pair of pants when I was growing up, and now that's all she wears. It was s... DOLLY PARTON You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl... TAMMARA WEBBER Something happened in the nineties. There was a shift. I don't want to blame it on grunge or the... BRANDON FLOWERS One would think that by the second decade of the twenty-first century, the intellectual poverty of t... EVGENY MOROZOV I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes. CRAIG GROESCHEL I'm interested in visual vocabulary, like Warhol was interested in that vocabulary of advertisem... DAMIAN LOEB We're seeing TV series that are as good as movies were in the '70s and '80s - shows like... TAHAR RAHIM Well my briefing was that Honduras was a small and vulnerable country just back on the path towards ... JOHN NEGROPONTE The best advice that was given to me was that I had to be 10 times smarter, braver and more polite t... SAMUEL L. JACKSON What's interesting about books that take place in the future, even twenty years in the future, i... ALBERT BROOKS Working with HBO was an opportunity to experience creative freedom and 'long-form development... MARTIN SCORSESE I kind of dress like a boy from the nineties. I like wearing baseball hats. I just like to be really... MAE WHITMAN That's a good sign for a movie: When it becomes part of the lexicon and pop culture for an entir... ROB RIGGLE Fame was never something I was seeking in my artistic journey. It's to be used as a tool for an ... PHILIPPE PETIT By the Nineties, so many people were moonlighting and creating their own professional identities tha... EVAN OSNOS It was more than I ever thought I would see, and I just assume never see something like that again. MARK SUDDUTH I was a guy back in the Eighties who was one movie away from a huge career, which at that time didn&... DENNIS QUAID All I could think was that right there, in ever passing second, was the future winding itself own. N... SARAH DESSEN In the mid-nineties, I quit my job as a senior feature writer at 'The Mail' on Sunday in the... MICHAEL ROBOTHAM I think 'Twilight' was such a phenomenon that it will be awhile before anything like that wi... SAOIRSE RONAN I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played,... B. B. KING Technically and logically speaking, actual Victorian science fiction writers cannot be dubbed 's... PAUL DI FILIPPO When I won the first Grammy, there was no other feeling like that feeling. It just made me feel like... RIHANNA I loved 'Star Wars' as a kid, but I missed out on the experiences of seeing them for the fir... EVAN DAUGHERTY Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't... JEFFREY WRIGHT When I started, I had a really hard time getting work. It was the mid- to late-nineties. There was t... NATALIE ZEA I'm just so grateful for the 10 years that I had in Sri Lanka when it was in the middle of a war... M.I.A. All my favorite artists and fashion icons and models are from the Nineties. Everybody was just so fe... RIHANNA There was a windstorm in L.A., and the morning after there was no smog, and I could see the mountain... A. J. BUCKLEY It's funny, but have you ever noticed that the more special something is, the more people seem to ta... NICHOLAS SPARKS An oyster has hardly any more reasoning power than a scientist has; and so it it is reasonably certa... MARK TWAIN I love nineties stuff like Alice in Chains and Nine Inch Nails. It'd be my dream to have a Radio... MARK SALLING I wrote my first textbook in 1970. It was called 'The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy... IRVIN D. YALOM It was recognition for our volunteers. There are so many (volunteer) hours that go into an organizat... MARY WORMINGTON I was fascinated by the culture clash between England and America in the 1950s. My first memories ar... LAURIE GRAHAM Aside from all that, she was carrying about a million tons of titanium ore to the heavy industries o... CHRISTINA ENGELA I was the kid at six who was like, 'I want to be in a jazz club.' I was never the pop kid, e... RACHAEL MACFARLANE The dangers of not thinking clearly are much greater now than ever before. It's not that there... CARL SAGAN I've designed since I was 12. The first was when I skated to Carmen, in red and gold and black. ... SASHA COHEN I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. DEYTH BANGER And that format was - we'd been using that format, I guess, since the late '70s, and it was ... PHIL LESH The universe is so vast, so immense, we can never expect to explore it all. It is in effect, not so ... CHRISTINA ENGELA 'Free Agents' was an awesome experience. I never play the glam girl in anything, so that was... KATHRYN HAHN If Stephen King was a killer, he will be the best killer ever existed, check out his novels, check o... DEYTH BANGER All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all j... OZZY OSBOURNE I loved filming in Morocco; it was amazing. I'd never been anywhere like that. The culture was p... TATIANA MASLANY Back in the '70s, like one of my favorite movies ever was 'The Bad News Bears', and that... JACK BLACK Growing up in the eighties, you could go from one style in a movie to another style, and that was ok... ALEXANDRE AJA The only other consistent thing in Billy’s life was his father. Billy didn’t call him that thoug... JESSE JAMES FREEMAN Like many actors, I started off as a monkey. My first job ever was as an extra in Tim Burton's &... KELLY STABLES Nineties hip-hop was a big influence for me; it still is. I love '90s everything. And it's w... TORI KELLY The Imperial Senate, ever conscious of the weight of public opinion resting on the tip of the pencil... CHRISTINA ENGELA I assumed that 'Gone Girl' would do incrementally better than 'Dark Places,' and tha... GILLIAN FLYNN Like every mother, it's my children; that's the first thing that makes me really proud. For ... CHERIE BLAIR When I was in my late twenties, a friend suggested that, since I was an avid SF reader and had been ... L. E. MODESITT, JR. 'Smurfs' just seemed like a great way to represent a young father to be, guy in a marriage, ... NEIL PATRICK HARRIS I had an invitation to contribute a track to a Robert Johnson tribute album, and it was the first ti... ROBERT PALMER I wasn't ever a bad guy, and I was never arrested or anything like that, but I was a wild boy in... DAVID CASSIDY The whole period of the '60s changed a lot of us; there was never a decade like that in American... WALTER CRONKITE I had seen 'Pillowman' in London and loved it. Being part of something that I, as an audienc... ZELJKO IVANEK It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physi... FREEMAN DYSON As a coach, one thing that used to frustrate me was one player would make a bad decision, and that... LOU HOLTZ I always thought that the badge a cop has was more like the shield that Captain America has. It'... JUDD NELSON I know I felt like I was ready to be an adult long before the rest of the world agreed. I'd alre... TIM PRATT When I started in the late nineties, it was all about young Hollywood. There were jobs for all of us... CHRIS KLEIN It's not like I ever sat in my room and said I was going to start a media company and become an ... IMRAN AMED To be honest with you, I don't have one track that I consider better than the next because all I... RAEKWON There's just nothing funnier or crazier than that - doing your Broadway debut as Spider-Man in &... JAKE EPSTEIN The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS The Bill of Rights isn't some legalistic fine print. It was written to make our lives freer, mor... HARRY BROWNE Musicians are often asked to answer for an entire culture, or for an entire movement. It's a pro... SUFJAN STEVENS The first CD that I ever bought was 'Britney Spears.' It was at a 7-Eleven and I was like, &... JOE JONAS I feel like if I had my personality but was an OB/GYN, you would be psyched. You'd be like, '... MINDY KALING One of the first things that helped me to understand certain things about writing was seeing 'Th... PETE HAMILL I made the big turnaround in the early Nineties when I started hearing all the tenth generation punk... JANE WIEDLIN (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON Afraid no, I wasn't afraid but it was an unusual thing, it was an unusual feeling. It was an unu... RALPH BOSTON Who would know but ten years ago that kids would be texting each other all the time, that that would... AMY KLOBUCHAR And maybe, although it was a thing you could hardly bear to think about, like death or your last jud... BRIAN MOORE I try to sign for as many kids as possible. Kids come first, and I'll always sign for a kid befo... DEREK JETER It's really hard to imagine there ever being the kind of impact there was when punk rock happene... PENELOPE SPHEERIS
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ROB SILTANEN The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do. ROB SILTANEN Our tendency in the midst of suffering is to turn on God. To get angry and bitter and shake our fist... ROB BELL The moment God is figured out with nice neat lines and definitions, we are no longer dealing with Go... ROB BELL Once you embrace your value, talents and strengths, it neutralizes when others think less of you. ROB LIANO What we do comes out of who we believe we are. ROB BELL I don't know whether it is beautiful or sad, that I find such blissful happiness within the confines... KENDAL ROB Nothing is born into this world without labor. ROB LIANO Be happy or die. ROB COHEN If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a "fix" of somethi... ROB STAMPFLI Making copies. ROB SCHNEIDER What we learned here is love tastes bitter when it’s gone. ROB THOMAS And the people we’ve become, well, they’ve never been the people who we are. ROB THOMAS In acting, there's a type of courage you're recognized for all the time. You lose 100 pounds... ROB LOWE To me, acting is like a party. It's like a fun thing to do. You don't have to worry. You don... ROB REINER Growing up, I had the weird fantasy list: I wanted to be Alice Cooper, Steven Spielberg, and Stan Le... ROB ZOMBIE Well, I affirm orthodox Christian faith. I affirm the Nicene Creed. I don't think I'm doing ... ROB BELL I'm a comedian at the beginning and the end of the day. I'm not affiliated with any campaign... ROB DELANEY I didn't start to work until I realized what it was I had to offer. I stopped imitating performe... ROB MCCLURE I have had a lot of blessed, interesting things happen to me and have bumped up against some amazing... ROB LOWE I'm not representing any organization. I represent the people of Ohio, and a lot of people in Oh... ROB PORTMAN Things have slowed down considerably since the new series has started airing and I am currently look... ROB MARIANO 'Wild Grinders' becoming an animated series, and airing on Nicktoons is another one of my bo... ROB DYRDEK Added to the rooster of courses, 'Tiger Woods 10' adds in seven new courses from the pristin... ROB MANUEL Maybe because I come from choreography, I've always felt that there's something about action... ROB MARSHALL I grew up in the D.C. area, and I used to wear a Redskins jersey just walking around. I just had kin... ROB HUEBEL Individuals will achieve healthier lifestyles when prevention and wellness programs are accessible a... ROB WITTMAN The Iron Dome system is a proven way for Israel to defend its citizens from hostile threats and will... ROB PORTMAN After my parents' divorce when I was 4, I spent weekends with my dad before we finally moved to ... ROB LOWE A good vacation for me is going to warm weather. Being able to go outside, in the sun, hit the beach... ROB GRONKOWSKI I only drink coffee grown in high altitude rain forests. ROB DYRDEK I'm endlessly fascinated by parenting, marriage, my wife and the ins and outs of marriage. ROB DELANEY We dream of the perfect wave, the perfect job, the perfect house, the perfect love, and when we get ... ROB MACHADO Sometimes it's not always about what you can see or hear but what's under the hood of a game... ROB MANUEL I like anywhere with a beach. A beach and warm weather is all I really need. ROB GRONKOWSKI I feel like it's a dangerous and dark world if 'Sunny' becomes mainstream comedy. If you... ROB MCELHENNEY You'd be surprised how cold you get in the water, especially surfing a place like Pipeline. If t... ROB MACHADO I like movies where you can come back and re-watch them and admire the cinematography 25 years later... ROB ZOMBIE My hopes and aspirations haven't changed since I started in this business. They've been to b... ROB LOWE My initial introduction to him was - this is a funny story... My Aunt Marian, my entire life growing... ROB MCCLURE Maggie and I got married and then had to wait three years before we got to take our honeymoon becaus... ROB MCCLURE