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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The business of the advertiser is to see that we go about our business with some magic spell or tune or slogan throbbing quietly in the background of our minds.
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Human attention tends to be focused on the satisfactions relationships are hoped to bring, precisely because somehow they have not been truly satisfactory. And if they do satisfy, the price of this satisfaction has often been found to be unacceptable.
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In our show you have to pay attention and know what happened before. I think it's very intelligent entertainment. It makes demands of viewers that a lot of shows don't.
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Humans may be the only creatures on Earth who spend significant time thinking about the fact that someday their lives will end.
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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.
