Rob Sheffield quote: "When Ke$ha tries to rap like L'Trimm, she sounds like any ordinary lonely teenage girl stuck in a nowhere town, singing along to her radio and dreaming of a party where she's the star. Ke$ha's greatness is that in her voice, you can hear both the loser girl and the star. All hail the Queen of Noi$e!"

The 2000s were the time when bromance became a kind of love that dared to speak its name. As a high-...
ROB SHEFFIELD

One of the things that make Liars so fascinating after five albums, each one so completely different...
ROB SHEFFIELD

Like many other touchstones of twenty-first-century pop culture, 'The Sopranos' was hatched ...
ROB SHEFFIELD

It takes only one bad amp to turn your ears to oatmeal: That's how old hippies became Yanni fans...
ROB SHEFFIELD

Hometown Aerosmith fans are different from other Aerosmith fans, and that mainly has to do with Joe ...
ROB SHEFFIELD

But MTV relishes its vestigial role as a star maker, so every year it puts all its clout into making...
ROB SHEFFIELD

Julia Louis-Dreyfus is just perfect in 'Veep.' She gets to show off the spiky claws beneath ...
ROB SHEFFIELD

It goes without saying that 'Buncha Losers' comedies speak to tough times. The massive unemp...
ROB SHEFFIELD

'American Horror' goes for a very specific kind of Seventies suburban downer ambience - '...
ROB SHEFFIELD

You can hear the Celtic heartbeat all over Europe and America, from Bing Crosby to Jack White, from ...
ROB SHEFFIELD

That's the secret of 'True Blood' - all the creatures that roam Bon Temps become a metap...
ROB SHEFFIELD

'Buncha Losers' comedy is one of those homegrown American art forms, up there with infomerci...
ROB SHEFFIELD

The sax solo as we know it today would not exist without Gerry Rafferty. His 1978 soft-rock classic ...
ROB SHEFFIELD

At an incredibly divisive point in pop history, Donna Summer managed to create an undeniable across-...
ROB SHEFFIELD

You can't beat the beehive for glam punkette attitude.
ROB SHEFFIELD

The times you lived through, the people you shared those times with — nothing brings it all to lif...
ROB SHEFFIELD

It’s the same with people who say, ‘Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.’ Even peop...
ROB SHEFFIELD

When I started out as a music journalist, at the end of the 1980s, it was generally assumed that we ...
ROB SHEFFIELD

One of the best moments of any Liars show is hearing the crowd squawk 'We're doomed! We'...
ROB SHEFFIELD

Baseball's Opening Day is full of time-honored traditions: the President throws out the first ba...
ROB SHEFFIELD

'Revenge' is a shameless soap in the style of Eighties shoulder-pad slap-offs like 'Dall...
ROB SHEFFIELD

'The Sopranos' gets praised as novelistic, but it follows the most banal of life patterns, s...
ROB SHEFFIELD

It's easy to see why 'American Horror' is freaking people out. The ultraviolent hallucin...
ROB SHEFFIELD

God bless America - what other civilization would give Patrick Dempsey another shot to rule as a sex...
ROB SHEFFIELD

You'd think if anyone could charm America into caring about the evening news, it would be Katie ...
ROB SHEFFIELD

Ron Swanson is more than the MVP of the 'Parks and Recreation' squad, more than just the fun...
ROB SHEFFIELD

The main job requirement for a network-news anchor is thinking it's the only important job in th...
ROB SHEFFIELD

In their heyday, the Pet Shop Boys were the Interpol of the Eighties, dressing up to sing really wei...
ROB SHEFFIELD

Both of my books, 'Love Is a Mix Tape' and 'Talking to Girls About Duran Duran,' are...
ROB SHEFFIELD

Loving Duran Duran has been one of the constants of my life, but I have no idea what they would soun...
ROB SHEFFIELD

That's the rub about 'Community' - for all the high-concept cleverness, it really comes ...
ROB SHEFFIELD

Just as Bowie, Zeppelin, etc., became rock stars by remaking themselves in the image of the Californ...
ROB SHEFFIELD

Why are Franz Ferdinand the perfect live band? They just are.
ROB SHEFFIELD

Sending Paris Hilton to jail for being the most loathed celeprosy lesion in the history of the speci...
ROB SHEFFIELD

'The Queen Is Dead' is not merely the Smiths' best album, but it is one of those timeles...
ROB SHEFFIELD

Anyone watching '30 Rock' always knew Tina Fey was playing a fictionalized version of hersel...
ROB SHEFFIELD

Ronnie Spector's hair was taller and meaner and scarier than all four Shangri-La's combined,...
ROB SHEFFIELD

Our lives were just beginning, our favorite moment was right now, our favorite songs were unwritten.
ROB SHEFFIELD

Tonight, I feel like my whole body is made out of memories. I'm a mix-tape, a cassette that's been r...
ROB SHEFFIELD

When we die, we will turn into songs, and we will hear each other and remember each other.
ROB SHEFFIELD

Davy Jones was the grooviest of the Monkees, which makes him one of the grooviest pop stars who ever...
ROB SHEFFIELD

Celebrity despicability is a precious thing.
ROB SHEFFIELD

I've built my whole life around loving music. I'm a writer for 'Rolling Stone,' so I...
ROB SHEFFIELD

Thanks for existing, R.E.M. It's hard to overstate how much these guys changed everything, creat...
ROB SHEFFIELD

Like most fans of 'So You Think You Can Dance,' I wouldn't know a pasodoble if it beat m...
ROB SHEFFIELD

'The Voice' has lots of singers who fit the 'Idol' mold of young, innocent ingenues ...
ROB SHEFFIELD

There are all kinds of mix tapes. there is always a reason to make one.
ROB SHEFFIELD

Every American wants a clean slate, but nobody wants to lose what they've got.
ROB SHEFFIELD

Rebecca Black might sing like a robot, but that's just proof she has evolved beyond us. Her voca...
ROB SHEFFIELD

The first season of 'Community' stumbled a bit because the plotlines too often veered into r...
ROB SHEFFIELD

Movies for adults sucked in the 1980s, and music for adults sucked even worse; whether we're tal...
ROB SHEFFIELD

My sisters were the coolest people I knew, and still are. I have always aspired to be like them and ...
ROB SHEFFIELD

'I'll Tumble 4 Ya' has to be one of the most ridiculous hit singles that any internation...
ROB SHEFFIELD

There’s only the one, see. When you fall in love with a girl, she’s the bloody White Album. That...
ROB SHEFFIELD

I'd shut the whole world down just to tell you
ROB SHEFFIELD

It was bewildering and humbling to keep discovering how many brave things people can fail to talk th...
ROB SHEFFIELD

I'm not one of those people who have to try and remember what they told people, because I always...
GARY SHEFFIELD

In L.A., wives can fly on the plane; with the Yankees, they can't. With other teams, the wives a...
GARY SHEFFIELD

I've played for teams that were family-oriented organizations. They made you feel like family. T...
GARY SHEFFIELD

I thought I knew there was a God. I always acknowledged that, but at the same time, I didn't liv...
GARY SHEFFIELD

I am sure it will be mentioned and debated but from my standpoint I know who is in the Hall of Fame....
GARY SHEFFIELD

Well, everybody is trying to make this a money thing. If you send me to another team, let's see ...
GARY SHEFFIELD

I've been the best player on every team that I played on, so if I can't be the poster child ...
GARY SHEFFIELD

Black players had an issue with Joe Torre. They weren't treated like everybody else. Even I got ...
GARY SHEFFIELD

When you challenge me, I like my chances in a fistfight. On the field, I use the same approach. I...
GARY SHEFFIELD

When you see Major League Baseball putting academies in other countries, obviously that throws up a ...
GARY SHEFFIELD

Regardless of what you're searching, you ain't gonna find it until you include God. Because,...
GARY SHEFFIELD

If I'm coming in at 4:00 in the morning and my kids have been in bed since 8:00, 9:00, that'...
GARY SHEFFIELD

I trust no one totally.
GARY SHEFFIELD

I had no interest in steroids. I didn't need them, and I didn't want them. I never wanted th...
GARY SHEFFIELD

Most people figured I'd be in jail. I've been proving people wrong my whole life.
GARY SHEFFIELD

The rage was in me, and if it wasn't for the rage, then I wouldn't know how to be calm. They...
GARY SHEFFIELD

This is what people don't understand. When they might see me do something that's not 'Go...
GARY SHEFFIELD

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.
JOHN SHEFFIELD

Lord, dismiss us with Thy blessing, Thanks for mercies past received.
JOHN SHEFFIELD

When McGwire started the home run mania, attendance came back. The owners understood that the sudden...
GARY SHEFFIELD

You can start out hot, you can start out lukewarm or you can start out cold. If you're a good team, ...
GARY SHEFFIELD

Gary, I want to confess something. [Bonds] made an offer to hire me: He'll get me a car, give me a p...
GARY SHEFFIELD

When it's done, that's the right time. When it happens, I'm sure it will catch me off-guard and I'll...
GARY SHEFFIELD

I don't want anybody to take my kindness as a weakness. Like I said before, this is where I want to ...
GARY SHEFFIELD

I've never had an organization come to me and say, 'Eventually, we're going to take care of you. I'v...
GARY SHEFFIELD

He's going to make sure it's done. It's always calm, but he had that look.
GARY SHEFFIELD

It's a testament to why he's been here 11 years. I think this one was a little more intense. I just ...
GARY SHEFFIELD

I think it was needed because at this point in my career my body needs to heal. I wasn't giving it a...
GARY SHEFFIELD

I'm a year at a time guy. If I have a good year, go on the next one. I want to go out on a high note...
GARY SHEFFIELD

They brought me in and told me they were probably going to pick the option up. You always want to ea...
GARY SHEFFIELD

I'm sure everybody in a family has a person in their family that has a problem ? drug related or wha...
GARY SHEFFIELD

I know who the leader is on the team, ... I ain't going to say who it is, but I know who it is. I kn...
GARY SHEFFIELD

I wanted to retire after I played for the Mets. My family said wait one year, that there was no need...
GARY SHEFFIELD

My dad's a bodybuilder. My whole life I've been taught to train the hard way. I believe in e...
GARY SHEFFIELD

This year, it does not require a signature. It also does not require any estimated payment if you ar...
MIKE SHEFFIELD

Jeter, ... is our catalyst. Where he goes, we go.
GARY SHEFFIELD

That would be devastating to me. I should be able to come back quicker than if it was a hamstring. I...
GARY SHEFFIELD

I took more swings than usual. I've had this before. This is what you get when you overdo it too ear...
GARY SHEFFIELD

I tried to come out of the box and I stumbled a little bit. I kind of tweaked it, but it's OK.
GARY SHEFFIELD

I vote Libertarian, straight ticket. But otherwise, Kinky Friedman, because he's not a politician, e...
JOHN SHEFFIELD

Lord, dismiss us with Thy blessing, / Thanks for mercies past received.
JOHN SHEFFIELD

The truest joys they seldom prove, Who free from quarrels live; 'Tis the most tender part of love, E...
JOHN SHEFFIELD

This team's resilient, ... We don't quit. Guys in here have battled back from injuries, the pitching...
GARY SHEFFIELD

This team is resilient. We don't quit. Now we're starting to come into our own.
GARY SHEFFIELD

I'm fine. Just got to take it easy and not overdo it.
GARY SHEFFIELD

I felt it cramp up on me. I tried to start over and regroup, but I just stopped before I hurt it mor...
GARY SHEFFIELD

We got what we wanted, a contested shot at the end.
DAVE SHEFFIELD

He's having a great tournament. But the great thing about our team is he isn't the only one contribu...
DAVE SHEFFIELD

I trust our young guys can handle it, they've been doing it all season.
DAVE SHEFFIELD

It benefits you winning those games because your kids get a little more confidence. But other than t...
DAVE SHEFFIELD

I just felt like I presented a good enough case where it would be thrown out altogether, but to get ...
GARY SHEFFIELD

Remember, an easy question can have an easy answer. But a hard question must have a hard answer. And...
CHARLES SHEFFIELD

Businesses generate enormous amounts of data that is critical to their own operations as well as the...
LARRY SHEFFIELD

The availability of mission critical information systems is often tied directly to business performa...
LARRY SHEFFIELD

I thought I was better than him last year, really. The players on the team thought so too, but he wa...
REGGIE SHEFFIELD

A good judge doesn't know the strength of the plaintiff's case until he's heard the defense.
WILLIAM SHEFFIELD

All men think all men mortal, but themselves. If there is a God, man's immortality is certain. If no...
EDGAR SHEFFIELD BRIGHTMAN

No totalitarians, no wars, no fears, famines or perils of any kind can really break a man's spirit u...
EDGAR SHEFFIELD BRIGHTMAN

If there is a God, man's immortality is certain. If not, Immortality would not be worth having.
EDGAR SHEFFIELD BRIGHTMAN

One of the most popular games to watch on eSports is 'League of Legends,' a game that blends...
ROB MANUEL

At the end of the day, all the best negotiating techniques can't overcome the most substantive p...
ROB PORTMAN

I love improv so much. Listening. I think that's the key. When you improvise, you put a lot of p...
ROB RIGGLE

Great things come out of being hungry and cold. Once you're pampered, you get lazy.
ROB ZOMBIE

I just really just try to get better as a player every week, just focusing on the team we have to pl...
ROB GRONKOWSKI

Before I go to bed, I've got to hit my situps and pushups. While I'm watching a TV show, I d...
ROB GRONKOWSKI

Just follow the rules. Always have a designated driver. Don't be doing anything to make someone ...
ROB GRONKOWSKI

I've always been a fan of football, always watched the NFL and it's great to always sit back...
ROB GRONKOWSKI

Stay hyped! Get chicks!
ROB GRONKOWSKI

My brother's got two degrees. He got one for me.
ROB GRONKOWSKI

You have to give it to the Packers. They are a good team. They have a great offense and a great defe...
ROB GRONKOWSKI

Just like any other game we're taking on we've got to prepare, prepare hard, mentally, physi...
ROB GRONKOWSKI

At one time, I wanted to be a WWE wrestler. I still do. I want to go in the ring once and mess aroun...
ROB GRONKOWSKI

I was always blessed growing up with opportunities and access to facilities, equipment, and playing ...
ROB GRONKOWSKI

I was running super slow. Chris thought I was done. Then one day at the end of February, I woke up a...
ROB GRONKOWSKI

Just put football first, or your job first. Give everything you've got all week, work hard, work...
ROB GRONKOWSKI

You always want to be on top of the playbook. You always want to be refreshed with the plays, make s...
ROB GRONKOWSKI

We go out to practice every single day and we have fun out there, but at the same time, we're ge...
ROB GRONKOWSKI

My softer side? I mean, I like to snuggle.
ROB GRONKOWSKI

Keep doing what you have to do to help the team out.
ROB GRONKOWSKI

Everyone always helped me out growing up, and everyone now supports me Sunday. So whenever there'...
ROB GRONKOWSKI

The importance of lifting weights is it kind of makes me who I am.
ROB GRONKOWSKI

I'd go at anyone. I took all of my brothers' bull. It made me who I am.
ROB GRONKOWSKI

Me not working hard? Yeah, right - picture that with a Kodak.
ROB GRONKOWSKI

I just go with the flow, day by day, week by week.
ROB GRONKOWSKI

To this day, I still haven't touched one dime of my signing bonus or NFL contract money. I live ...
ROB GRONKOWSKI

You want to be the best at work in order to go out and celebrate.
ROB GRONKOWSKI

I saw 'The Grand Budapest Hotel.' I liked it. I saw 'The Fault in Our Stars,' and I ...
ROB REINER

I'm very aware of the fact that Broadway musicals being brought to the screen are very few and f...
ROB MARSHALL

The pirating thing is bad. The people it hurts the most are the ones you least think it hurts. It...
ROB ZOMBIE

Decisions about your health should be between you and your doctor, not a bureaucrat and an insurance...
ROB PORTMAN

I just love the Corps. I love the brotherhood, the camaraderie. I thank anyone in uniform who serves...
ROB RIGGLE

The best way to appreciate our political process is to volunteer for a campaign and support a candid...
ROB MCKENNA

The myth of redemptive violence - Caesar, peace, and victory - is in people's bones so deeply, w...
ROB BELL

The political spin in Washington is revolting, just revolting. It's a callous political game.
ROB BISHOP

I want to experience Dallas. It's a new city where I see new business opportunities.
ROB KARDASHIAN

My son Matthew's beloved dog is a Jack Russell. His name is Buster. Matthew picked him as a pupp...
ROB LOWE

As I've evolved, I'm capable of doing a lot of things at once, but really, as an entrepreneu...
ROB DYRDEK

The scariest part to any story is the sliver of truth you hide in the horror. Sometimes its not abou...
ROB MANUEL

Things like that become a blur - shot at some soundstage, somewhere - that's as much as I can re...
ROB ZOMBIE

I had had some successes in the '90s, always made money, but the truth was I was like a man push...
ROB LOWE

To be fair, Republicans are not blameless. The deficit began to spiral out of control on President B...
ROB WOODALL

When life gives you lemons. . . You might as well shove 'em where the sun don't shine, because you s...
ROB THURMAN

Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square h...
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

When Ke$ha tries to rap like L'Trimm, she sounds like any ordinary lonely teenage girl stuck in a nowhere town, singing along to her radio and dreaming of a party where she's the star. Ke$ha's greatness is that in her voice, you can hear both the loser girl and the star. All hail the Queen of Noi$e!

Rob Sheffield

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