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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You have to stay on top and learn from mistakes.
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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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The temptation is to think that Vicente Fox, who heads a country 46% of whose people would like to live in the United States, is but another failed Third World visionary prattling on for the benefit of globalists who have been beavering away on their impossible dream for generations...
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I've never made a mistake. I've only learned from experience.
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The English, a spirited nation, claim the empire of the sea; the French, a calmer nation, claim that of the air.
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I never, ever had it in my mind that I wanted to be in the record industry, because I still contend that the record industry is an insidious affair. It's this terrible collision between art and commerce, and it will always be that way.
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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.
