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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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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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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America is not the center of the universe.
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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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There should be an element of mystique between the fans and the artist. That bit between the stage and the audience. I think that's necessary.
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There's no such thing as a perfect person, so it makes no sense to write a perfect person. I don't know any author who'd try. And we write characters, not representations of groups.
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I don't work for Donald Trump. I work with him. I work for the people who sent me up here. He ran on repealing and replacing Obamacare. Those people that put him and me in office expect us to repeal and replace Obamacare.
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People need to realise what real happiness and success is, because success as an actor is fleeting. You can be up there one day and gone the next.
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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.
