Rivers Cuomo Quotes
In some ways, I feel like I was Nirvana's biggest fan in the Nineties. I'm sure there are a zillion people who would make that claim, but I was just so passionately in love with the music that it made me feel sick. It made my heart hurt.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.
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Success is not like a cake that needs to be divided. It's more like a heap of stones - a cairn. If someone is successful, they add a stone to the cairn. It gets very high and can be seen from all over the world. That's how I see it.
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When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.
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Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job.
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America is not the center of the universe.
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.
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I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.
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The idea that we are not going to look after the Great Barrier Reef, which is just a wonderful tourism resource that it can be just for one example - we are not going to look after it, we won't have tight environment regulation, is frankly just not true.
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I have always been a coward as a child. I am not very brave. I am very aware of the fact that I am not very gutsy.
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I said I wanted to strap guns on an El Camino. When I brought it up at a meeting, they said great. I realized there's no adult in the room.
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I felt that a number of people might have questioned my loyalty, but I continue to be a patriotic American.
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Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.
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There should be no censorship of mail.
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I come from Surajpur, a valley in Himachal Pradesh near Manali that is named after my great grandfather Sarju Singh Ranaut.
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It is harder to explain why free markets create wealth than it is to pander to workers who have been displaced by global competition.
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I think he was explicit that it was a slave labor situation, but I was not alarmed at that point, because there were so many tragedies involved in that war. That was the first time I had any indication that something was sort of strange.
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You think the only thing looking at you is this steel thing, but behind the camera is this living, breathing person operating the camera whose job it is to watch you.
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We need to inspire and give each other confidence so that the work we do will be fruitful for the well-being of the people and the stability and security of the country.
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And in the last sentence I would like also to mention that Poland is one of the countries with which the United States has run strategic dialogues since last year.
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In some ways, I feel like I was Nirvana's biggest fan in the Nineties. I'm sure there are a zillion people who would make that claim, but I was just so passionately in love with the music that it made me feel sick. It made my heart hurt.
