Rivers Cuomo Quotes
The most nerve-wracking experience is an oral presentation in class. And right under that would be doing 'Saturday Night Live' or 'David Letterman.' One of those shows.
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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
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I don't have a connection to the fashion world at all.
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A good lie detector doesn't jump to conclusions but tries to understand the person across the table, her personality, and her motivations. Your goal as a lie spotter isn't to point the finger and say, 'You're lying' - your goal is to get to the truth.
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As a kid, I was always very thin, and I kind of didn't know that I was skinny.
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I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.
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Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.
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My way of relaxing was always doing the opposite and playing the drums, but I need to be able to actually chill.
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If you don't ponder the end of the world on a regular basis, I don't think you're really human.
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I don't read novels, but my semiotics study influenced everything about the way I read and edit and write.
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Of course I used to smile and laugh in 1976, but not when I was competing. Please show me somebody who laughs when they are concentrating; I always smiled.
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It's hard to see how the Copyright Office can rise to the many challenges of the 21st-century work that you do without dramatically more independence and dramatically more flexibility.
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So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.
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That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.
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I love zoo sanctuaries.
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My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.
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I think it's all about making records when you're inspired to make them.
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When ghetto living seems normal, you have no shame, no privacy.
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History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
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The Metropolitan Opera, of course, is the gold standard in opera. The Met experience includes the huge stage, the vast audience, the elaborate sets. Anyone who saw 'Faust' there - I did - knows exactly what hell is like, complete with fire, smoke and terror.
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It's interesting how much people long to fill in the gaps when someone in the public eye doesn't share their personal life. I understand their frustration.
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If there is a God and you believe in him, you know the best is yet to come.
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You just have to be prepared because in the Premier League, you are not always going to have more than once chance to score. When it comes your way, you have to be ready to take that chance. If you're not calm, you know it might not come again.
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To the average professed Christian today, living so far below normal, New Testament Christianity would be a shock.
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The most nerve-wracking experience is an oral presentation in class. And right under that would be doing 'Saturday Night Live' or 'David Letterman.' One of those shows.
