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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History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
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It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death.
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I fantasize about having a manual job where I can come home at night, read a book and not feel responsible for what will happen the next day.
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California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction.
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Is fame without purpose and is fame without talent really where we are now? People used to be famous for what they did. Now, they're just famous.
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I had my first apartment when I was 16. I got good grades, so my friends would be able to come over to 'study.' We'd party, and they'd cheat off me. Everybody won!
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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.
