I never felt bad about being lumped in with other Seattle bands. I thought it was great.

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Best two rock voices I've heard in a last few years both have been from grunge bands: it's E...
BRUCE DICKINSON We were uncomfortable with it from the beginning because we felt like we were, I guess our heart was...
DUSTIN KENSRUE

We were lumped into the Lite Metal radio bands.
KIP WINGER I first started going to shows when I was about 16 - seeing local bands. I mean, I loved music befor...
MAC DEMARCO Drums started to be the only thing I was excited about. School sucked.I was a bad student--too rambu...
GREEN DAY I was totally surprised. I thought it was a mistake, but it really felt great.
DANA LANDRY WHEN I LIED TO YOU I DIDN'T FEEL BAD FOR YOU. I FELT BAD THAT I WAS SO AFRAID OF WHAT YOU THOUGHT AB...
SUSIE L HILL I never thought I was a bad person. I just thought I was the one good person living in a world of ba...
DEAN AMBROSE We were elated to see him get that. Chris felt bad about his (final) match, felt he could've played ...
RICK DUKESHIER I was never one who was squeamish about nudity. I don't believe in being promiscuous about it, but s...
BETTE PAGE We first played against each other when were about 8 years old. We've become good friends, and when ...
JEFF LANG

I have never done any other job. I have sung in bands since I was 15. I left school completely unqua...
ALISON MOYET

It was difficult. It was a feeling I never felt before. I thought it was serious at first.
LEBRON JAMES

I think Chris Rock at the Oscars was a great example. I thought that was intellectually hilarious. T...
CHRISTOPHER MELONI

The guy thought he was Mick Jagger. I felt bad for him.
KAMI GARCIA

I never thought about being famous.
DAMON WAYANS I felt like I was part of the new era of the Seattle Seahawks,
PAUL ALLEN I never thought I'd spend all my life with Gary. I suppose I was quite cynical about marriage. B...
SADIE FROST It felt great being back. It was a little cold, but once I got into it, I felt pretty good.
ALEXIS GORDON I had a pretty bad time when I was an undergraduate at Cornell University. I failed out of school. I...
VICTOR LAVALLE

One of my favorite places is Seattle. Growing up, I never thought I'd be able to go to Seattle. ...
JOSH TURNER I thought Cornell was very talented and very good, but I also thought if we played a great game we c...
BRIAN VOELKER Just to see Chris fight through the years with what was going on ... it was just something I thought...
CHADD LITTLE I never thought about being an actor.
DANNY GLOVER I remembered seeing it and it was this metallic turbine and I thought it was beautiful. I had never ...
JOHN SEXTON

I was kind of an outsider growing up, and I preferred reading to being with other kids. When I was a...
ANN HOOD He was complaining about his leg pain being so bad, which you never know somebody's pain tolerance. ...
JODI WEBB It felt like being in the center of the world, and I felt like I was a witness to history and I knew...
KRIST NOVOSELIC

It's so funny because all those years I was working, I basically always felt that whatever job I...
CHRISTIE BRINKLEY Growing up I played in garage bands and cover bands with my older brother, and he got us a gig openi...
CHARLES KELLEY

When I was on 'SNL,' I was getting weirdly anxious about being on camera, which I had never ...
BILL HADER There was this whole middle time that only Chris Rock came out of, you know, 10 years ago it was Chr...
BOB SAGET I never thought I would be the oldest quarterback in the National Football League at one point, not ...
WARREN MOON I just picked games and didn't even know how it worked. I never thought much about it. But after thr...
CRAIG MORTON I never thought it was a gamble. I thought it was unbelievable that here was a 15-year-old kid with ...
BOBBY PETRINO Comics continue to have a pretty bad [reputation]. They're often lumped in with TV and video games.
DONALD AULT

It was such a great time for music. Being in college radio in the '80s, R.E.M. just happened, Elvis ...
SARAH VOWELL I was kind of shocked. I thought (quarterback) Chris (Leak) was going to win it the way he played.
DALLAS BAKER At the time, we thought it was a nice way to say something unique about the group to make us differe...
GERRY BECKLEY Initially I felt I wanted to buy the whole catalog. It was a great way to network with other mothers...
CYNTHIA KOENIG

I never thought I was a great mom. I always worked. I fell in love with my children as they got olde...
MARLA GIBBS I thought it was going in. It felt real good.
ALEX THOMPSON

I felt very proud to be part of a music scene that was changing the face of commercial music and roc...
CHRIS CORNELL I knew I needed four (going into the game). It felt just as good, plus it was me by myself. I really...
BREANNA FULPER I said Dontrelle Willis before the game. I say Chris now. I faced Chris when he was in Toronto and I...
DOUG MIENTKIEWICZ As far as the grunge thing, there are three bands from Seattle that I would call true grunge.
ADAM JONES Being really close to Blake, I felt a great deal of loss. I was really confused about why and stuff ...
JASON WEIMER

I never thought of myself as being handsome or good-looking or whatever. I always felt like an outsi...
ELTON JOHN

Being on 'Glee' was amazing. I remember my first day on set, my first day I arrived to the s...
NENE LEAKES It's tough. I'm pretty surprised. I felt as though I did everything I could do. . . . I felt great w...
DREW HADDAD With the adrenaline going, I couldn't hear anything while I was running. But when it was over I hear...
MAX BRUNO I guess I thought this was a great opportunity to merge all of my interests. I think Mike kind of fe...
CHRIS DOELLE

I want to make sure when we came here that they felt comfortable with each other, that they felt goo...
NANCY LOPEZ I feel like the rap metal at the end of the 1990s destroyed rock music for everybody and suddenly ev...
NATE RUESS I never really worked with Chris Farley, I hung out with him, but I had plans... I had big plans... ...
ANDY DICK

I thought about cricket a lot. I needed to get out of this bubble of mine. I found it in books and c...
RAHUL DRAVID I thought that was appropriate because Mike Holmgren is the coach of Seattle, and was Reggie's coach...
JEFFREY LURIE I never thought I was funny, but I enjoy being funny.
NORA DUNN I felt great. It was just one bad pitch. I missed, it was right down the middle. He got his pitch, a...
JASON CHILDERS It feels great to feel what all the other champions have felt, ... Feeling the pain I felt so many y...
YOLANDA GRIFFITH I've never felt like it was a hindrance as a coach, I've never felt like it was a problem with a pla...
DICK JAURON

And I felt sorry, and I have felt bad about what happened.
MONICA LEWINSKY

The biggest compliment that I receive is when other black folks come up to me and say, 'You chan...
STERLING K. BROWN For me, I was given a great gift by my father and my mother in that I was never told any idea was ba...
JENNIFER LYNCH I told her I was sorry. I played AAU ball with her for seven years. I felt bad about it, but it's pa...
LINDSAY BIGGS But it was never about that. It was never about competing with people with legs. It was about being ...
DEBORAH MCFADDEN I had 12 great years in Pittsburgh, and that one doesn't matter. During my time with Seattle, they w...
FRANCO HARRIS

I don’t stand a chance if he doesn't get better. You’ll never be able to let him go. You’ll al...
SUZANNE COLLINS It was just all of a sudden. I thought it looked terrible back in there and I felt someone had to do...
BETTY WILSON

Of all the grunge bands to come out of Seattle, Alice in Chains were the greatest.
DIMEBAG DARRELL It was great to have the crowd behind me. I felt like I was back in college. It was great.
LUKE SCHENSCHER There were a lot of times where there was a great deal of fodder recorded and played, because there ...
WOODY HERMAN I felt very unsure about this match, to be honest. I had a bad feeling about it but what matters is ...
ROGER FEDERER I felt bad breathing because it was completely silent.
ANDY HUDSPEATH I felt a pop and being a player, you always hear the stories and the people that (suffer an ACL inju...
KANE MOIX I never felt so good and played so bad.
DUANE STARKS I was disappointed with our performance. I thought we needed to use some extra reps on Sunday. That'...
LOREN JACULA

With scripts I've always looked at them and thought about kids, you know? Thought about the worl...
CARRIE-ANNE MOSS We're very involved in picking the bands. KASABIAN is great. I know less about SEETHER , but I hear ...
TOM MORELLO The official threw the bean bag where Chris initially went down with one knee. The ball rolled forwa...
LARRY WISER I nodded off and ended up in the other lane. It terrified me ... I felt sleep deprived. I never felt...
BARBARA ROBINSON

I never thought about competing in the Olympic Games when I was growing up.
SIMONE BILES I had that one in my heart, and was thinking about it. It felt great. I cannot tell you how good it ...
IVAN PEREZ In the third inning, it started to get real bad. It felt like I was being stabbed in the side. I tri...
RONALD BAY

I know that I'm inadequate, but I never thought that at seventeen. I thought I was doing the bes...
ERIC BOGOSIAN

I felt like I was cheated out of my career in the UFC. In my mind and in my heart, I never lost to a...
BROCK LESNAR It was fantastic returning to 'Being Human'. When I got cast in the role, at first I just th...
ELLIE KENDRICK

It's too bad about 'Dark of the Sun.' It was really about Tshombe. When I read the scrip...
JIM BROWN Acting was something that I grew up just doing. I certainly never thought about it.
GABY HOFFMANN Cornell has placed first twice and the other time it was Penn State. We are playing with the big boy...
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I first visited the Philippines when I was 29. I thought I would feel at home there, but I felt more...
ALEX TIZON

I never felt I had anything to hide. I never felt being gay was anything to be ashamed of, so I neve...
MARTINA NAVRATILOVA [Chris Webber has heard the reports that his relationship with O'Brien is strained. Not so, Webber s...
CHRIS WEBBER Chris has always been a good player, but I never thought he was going to become the type of scoring ...
DAN SCHWARTZ

I have fond memories of Chris Penn, who's sadly not with us. He always made me laugh - it was gr...
KEVIN BACON

I never really committed to being an actor. It never felt like it would be possible, I guess.
EDDIE REDMAYNE I never really thought of myself as a sex goddess; I felt I was more a comedian who could dance
RITA HAYWORTH

I was just trying to let them know how I felt about being treated as a human being,
ROSA PARKS I never dreamed of publication and I never thought about success. Sometimes I wonder what it is doin...
LAUREL LEE I felt great about it. I knew it as soon as I kicked it.
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I never felt bad about being lumped in with other Seattle bands. I thought it was great.

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