For Nirvana, putting out their first major-label record was like getting into a new car. But the runaway success was like suddenly discovering that the car was a Ferrari and the accelerator pedal was Krazy Glued to the floorboard.
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Related The rules only applied to people who couldn’t afford different rules. CAMERON STRACHER And the day came out... the mask was removed... and who was behind it? ... No Face... a pe... DEYTH BANGER If Stephen King was a killer, he will be the best killer ever existed, check out his novels, check o... DEYTH BANGER The bulkheads were close together, the ceilings low above their helmets. Not much space in there to ... CHRISTINA ENGELA The Rolls Royce was the real first car. It wasn't the first new car I got, but it was the first ... MEEK MILL I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Paul's one thing was committing to forget about the past, to forge ahead into the future. CRAIG GROESCHEL It shouldn't have mattered, not when Miel and the other girls in his class wore jeans more than they... ANNA-MARIE MCLEMORE My first car was a Buick Skyhawk from, like, '78, I think. I ran that thing into the gutter. It ... SCOTT ADSIT I called out his name. I was like, Dre, Dre! A lady rode by in a green car, and she was like, he up ... ERICA SMITH It was like being in a car with the gas pedal slammed down to the floor and nothing to do but hold o... NIC SHEFF Once she was out of the car and gone, my world was suddenly hollow and meaningless. HARUKI MURAKAMI I'd never seen anyone work like Al. If there was a scene where his character was getting into a car,... D.J. CARUSO I thought it was the garbage that was smelling like that. I didn't know it was a body out there in t... CYNTHIA WILLIAMS I was like a deer in the headlights of a car, ... That was the first time I had ever been interviewe... WILLIAM BUCKINGHAM Yeah, that was one crazy year. Basically my whole philosophy starting out -- because the question ca... HOWIE DAY Michael allowed himself to look at Caddy for the first time since she had climbed into the car. It w... HILARY MCKAY Anyways, that very same night there was a fight in the casino on B Deck. Some of the passengers got ... CHRISTINA ENGELA I felt like a car that had only been operated by one driver… a car its new prospective buyer was d... CHARLAINE HARRIS I remember the first time I pulled out of my driveway in my grandparents' Nissan Ultimate or Cen... EMILY RATAJKOWSKI We had to replace a rear shock on the car, ... The car was getting faster as qualifying went on but ... SCOTT SPEED Originally, after 'Tambourine' came out, another record was supposed to come out, but I had ... EVE My dad was pretty old school. I've had a job since I can remember, and it's not like he was ... SCOTT EASTWOOD He took the keys to a customer's car, went out but was unable to unlock the car door, MARK HYDE Prudence was waiting for us when we arrived, and I saw her visibly wince as I pulled the Fiesta into... M.L. BRENNAN What made me want to become a recording artist; I was the first artist that was repeatedly asked by ... CHUCK D I wanted to put out a solo record because I was stuck on a major label and sick of it. SHIRLEY MANSON It sounds like something from a Woody Guthrie song, but it's true; I was raised in a freight car... MERLE HAGGARD George really looked after me, ... After I left the band, I was completely isolated. It was like bei... GERI HALLIWELL My first car was a Chevy Cavalier. My dad somehow convinced me that it was a hot sports car because ... KATHERYN WINNICK Insect life was so loud that when you parked the car and got out it sounded as if you had suddenly t... DAVID SAMUELS The only big things I've purchased are my dad's heart valve and a Rolls-Royce for my parents... LADY GAGA We had offers from major labels in the past but we skipped over them because we knew it was too earl... BRETT ANDERSON People think getting a new partner is like getting a new car. ORLANDO BLOOM I hadn't been in the car today before qualifying, and since I was jumping into the car cold, in the ... DAYTON DUNCAN Compared to the car in front of me, it was like a tank. DANIEL KIM At the start of the race all I wanted to do was keep the car in the lead and hand it over to Michael... GUY COSMO And suddenly I realised that I was no longer driving the car consciously. I was driving it by a kind... AYRTON SENNA And suddenly I realized that I was no longer driving the car consciously. I was driving it by a kind... AYRTON SENNA When you look at people like Carl Lewis, Michael Johnson, Maurice Greene, the key to their success w... JUSTIN GATLIN When you look at people like Carl Lewis, Michael Johnson, Maurice Greene, the key to their success w... JUSTIN GATLIN I hooked up my accelerator pedal in my car to my brake lights. I hit the gas, people behind me stop,... STEVEN WRIGHT Right off the truck, the car was unbelievable, ... That was the best car I've driven ... CARL EDWARDS It was like a battleground, helicopters, fire engines, my car door was crushed like an accordion. ANNE ANGELELLI My first-ever car, my parents bought me a red Fiat Uno. I was 17 and just so happy to have a car, so... VICTORIA BECKHAM Island Records was the first record label to... acknowledge me. After that, quickly, Republic Record... SHAWN MENDES My first car was a motorcycle. ADAM CAROLLA The car was set up perfectly. You couldn't ask for a better car for that class. BEN CALLIES When I first came to New York I was a dancer, and a French record label offered me a recording contr... MADONNA CICCONE But on a course like that it was like an Indy car circuit. You could just sit at the back and do not... BOBBY JULICH I came out and saw the girl stumbling out of the car. I asked her if she was OK. She said yeah. She ... JULIE GILBERT (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON I have two or three cars that I like, but today, Ferrari would be the best car I have driven in term... RATAN TATA It was just that there was something newly powerful about this assembled family in the car. They wer... MAGGIE STIEFVATER Our evidence shows (Corrine Smith) was not strapped in, ... There was a car seat in the car, but she... TOM BYRNE I think women like Ferraris. A Ferrari is everybody's car. TIM ALLEN I think that was the first car accident I've ever been in. I was a little bit startled. MATT HASSELBECK "If Life Was Like A Car, Communication Would Be The Key To The Igniton." ~ Tom Baker TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN They are out of their minds. The driver was outside in our parking lot and it looked like he just di... LISA GUARENTE I like to use the example that building a car is hard, but building the first car is quite hard. JOERG APPENZELLER She yelled [that] her child was in the car. It's not clear if the child was pushed out of the car or... CRYSTAL CANDY As for Lexus, he says, ''I'm getting involved with their new hybrid [car] . . . and I was told that ... PAUL MCCARTNEY The first time I rode a bike I was four or five. I crashed into the back of a car. DAVID MILLAR I've never been in anything like that. That was one of the wildest races I've ever been a part of. W... SHANE HUFFMAN We adjusted the belts, the seat, and stuck our number on the side of the car. I had no idea how the ... MARK PATTERSON We spent a fair amount of time out of the car waiting for the circuit to come good. Our car was reas... JASON BRIGHT He was like a kid in a candy store. When he found out you could test drive a car, he drove every car... MELISSA GREGORY It was like being in a car accident, but it keeps going and going, non-stop. EDDIE HO I think the car was really good for the first half of the race. The rear brake was a problem again t... CHRIS PETERSON My first car was a 1969 Dodge Charger, and I've just been into Chargers ever since, DAN KELLY I was with PolyGram; that was the big label that I was with for the longest, like 12 years. ROY AYERS I was kind of in shock that he kept George in the car and also kind of relieved at the same moment t... CARL RATHBURN If you can do it, you move the car off the road and we fight about whose fault it was later, ... It ... KATE HARPER I've toured the U.S. every single year and I've put a record out every single year whether it was on... BUZZ OSBORNE My first car was a 1986 Toyota pickup. MICHAEL STEGER the whole problem of discovering what was the matter, and figuring out what you have to do to fix it... RICHARD FEYNMAN As a panting Tracy Ferris scrambled into the life-pod, this thought was precisely what was running t... CHRISTINA ENGELA My first car was a BMW. A white BMW. JAMIE-LYNN SIGLER If it was something expensive like a Mercedes, we could sell the car and pay some back. CHARLES GRIGSON But pain may be a gift to us. Remember, after all, that pain is one of the ways we register in memor... SUE MILLER What I wrote... wasn't crazy... or a bullshit... or nonsense... it was what I saw! DEYTH BANGER I was build with bassically upon on a code... lie... what's a lie and so on and so on!? -... DEYTH BANGER For the record, I'm not getting in the car. I can't fit into no Indy car. I'm just excited about the... CARMELO ANTHONY Back in the '60s, there was a car sticker that read, 'Forget Oxfam, Feed Twiggy,' but I ... TWIGGY When I first was a part of 'The Monster,' I really wanted to put it out under my name, but n... BEBE REXHA 'Die a Happy Man' was one of those that, when I wrote it and sent it to my label, their resp... THOMAS RHETT I loved it. It was fun saying hi to people. When someone would ask what I was doing there, I would s... DEBORAH NORVILLE It was like a train, a runaway train, there was no stopping it. MARK DAVID CHAPMAN One time, I was posing on a car for a calendar shoot. I was doused with oil and literally slid off t... CANDACE KITA For me it was a great race, ... The first few laps were pretty tight. I had my areas where I was qui... DUANE DAVIS We begin to fight. The wind and I. Horns locked. Battling each other with elements. LAURA DOCKRILL I felt something happen to the car the lap before; it felt like the car didn't have a sway bar. The ... JOEY LOGANO The car was pretty stout, ... That was pretty darn close to a perfect lap. CARL EDWARDS It looked like [Meyers] could maneuver anywhere but the top and my car was good on the top and botto... DANNY LASOSKI My first car was a 1999 red Mazda Protege. IKE BARINHOLTZ When I was 7, an old lady was driving too fast in my neighborhood and hit me with her car. I was run... RUTINA WESLEY The weapon he held in his sweaty grip was one of a small consignment of prototypes received at the l... CHRISTINA ENGELA My mother's sister was killed in a trolley car accident, so I was raised as one of eight with my... ALAN KING The body is like a car: the older you become the more care you have to take care of it - and you don... JOAN COLLINS We had a lot of people come out Friday despite the weather and Saturday was beautiful. We had a big ... STACY WILLIAMS
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MICHAEL GREGER 'Into the Blizzard' follows the author as he traces the footsteps of the Newfoundland Regime... MICHAEL WINTER Adventurous reading allows one to escape a little from the provincialities of one's home culture... MICHAEL DIRDA The goal is to really blur the line. Can you perform a magic trick in a way that someone doesn't... MICHAEL CARBONARO Roja Dove - who, at 58, is a stock-straight six feet and handsome with lantern jaw, blue eyes, and i... MICHAEL PATERNITI There are no bona fide treatments available for embryonic stem cells. There is nothing in the labora... MICHAEL BURGESS And they talk about their bona fide doctors. They have a list of doctors that signed affidavits from... MICHAEL SCHIAVO From an early age, I had always loved drawing. Laying on the floor, in front of the fire, drawing fr... MICHAEL FOREMAN You can bend it and twist it... You can misuse and abuse it... But even God cannot change the Truth. MICHAEL LEVY The three actors I admire the most are all dead. Humphrey Bogart, Spencer Tracy and the French actor... MICHAEL CAINE I see tendencies, I see body language. MICHAEL CHANG In some ways, calm bodily protest has a nakedness to it that may be deeply embarrassing for observer... MICHAEL LEUNIG Before I started writing about food, my focus was really on the human relationship to plants. Not on... MICHAEL POLLAN Not that I'm some rocker, but what I do in a show is probably far more aggressive than what Dean... MICHAEL BUBLE I was lucky enough to have great mentors both in the culinary world and in the world of chefs who be... MICHAEL SYMON