Rivers Cuomo Quotes
I didn't get as much attention as I wanted from girls as a teenager. I thought that if I became a rock star, I would finally get all that I wanted - but it didn't happen.
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I lose film roles because I'm a person who doesn't keep quiet about certain things. But if my heart tells me something is wrong, I'm going to go and do something about it.
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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
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Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.
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I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.
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I do mixed martial arts, mainly kickboxing.
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A bad hair day for me is when it gets flat and greasy.
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Apparently, Daniel Craig said I'd be a great Bond. Daniel, why did you say that? Dropped me right in it! What an honor it would be, but also, what an indication of change.
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I don't think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark.
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I do not want to be a long-term CEO.
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Tax cuts are like sex: When they are good, they are very, very good. And when they are bad, they are still pretty good.
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I did go through a phase where I played videogames quite often, but I haven't in a few years.
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I am one of maybe three people in the world who knows anything about Robert W. Chambers.
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I believe people should live full lives and not settle for anything less.
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The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country.
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I've always had an interest in sports across the board.
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To be able to take my pictures, I have to look, all the time, at the people and places I care about.
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I'm a strong proponent of green tech for anyone who can afford it, having spent the last 40 years working toward achieving a smaller and smaller eco-impact for myself.
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I'm not performing anymore. I reveal myself to the audience. I reveal myself. That's the show now.
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For 10 days after the Olympics, I couldn't go back to my house because people were sitting outside waiting to take my photo. That was a bit rubbish. At first I was open: 'Yeah, of course you can take a photo...' but after a while, it got to the point where I thought, 'Whoa, I don't like this attention anymore.'
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If you're gonna use simile, analogy, metaphor, be descriptive and have some flowery adjectives and a few odd nouns and some engaging bits of dialogue or sentiment, then you're sort of writing a novel, really. But rock lyrics are not really known for their sophistication.
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You know you don't have to be the most popular kid in the school to have people acknowledge your presence.
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Playing SpongeBob is freeing. There is something intrinsically about him that people identify with no matter their age.
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Listen - pacemaker, crash, stroke. What does it mean? God doesn't want me now. That's all.
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I didn't get as much attention as I wanted from girls as a teenager. I thought that if I became a rock star, I would finally get all that I wanted - but it didn't happen.
