Rivers Cuomo Quotes

Meditation hasn't separated me from my life and my friends and my work. It's just made my fear go away, so I can just be that much more engaged.

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• Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Bad
  • Movie
  • Guy

• I was doing a scene in a medical tent in 18th-century battle dress, pantaloons and a ripped shirt, and the guy from the crew kept asking me if I was OK, if I was too cold. I told him, 'Are you kidding? I'm from Wales!'

  

  Owain Yeoman
  • Guy
  • Cold
  • Battle

• They don't have a lot of appointment viewing. What television depends on, one thing 'Larry King Live' was - whether you liked it, didn't like it - it was appointment viewing.

  

  Larry King
  • Live
  • King
  • Television

• I think I'm a critic of corporate power, whether locally or globally. And the term 'globalization' I've never found all that helpful.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Power
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• I told the Mucinex people, 'You picked me because I always sound sick'. They were like, 'Well, it doesn't hurt'.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • People
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• Snoop Dog is the Phil Jackson of youth football coaches. He ain't going to accept nothing but a winner.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Football
  • Dog
  • Youth

• My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.

  

  Finn Jones
  • She
  • Dad
  • Child

• The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • People
  • Time
  • Best

• There can be no literary equivalent to truth.

  

  Laura Riding
  • Truth
  • Literary
  • Equivalent

• Well I do think, when there are more women, that the tone of the conversation changes, and also the goals of the conversation change. But it doesn't mean that the whole world would be a lot better if it were totally run by women. If you think that, you've forgotten high school.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • World
  • Women
  • School

• The willingness to be self-critical in England is much greater than the willingness to be self-critical in America.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • America
  • England
  • Greater

• My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Great
  • Heaven
  • Idea

• I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Music
  • Always
  • Dresses

• Why should Bollywood accept me? I should accept Bollywood. I don't care if Bollywood has accepted me. I don't seek acceptance. I don't need to live up to anybody's expectations.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Up
  • Live
  • Why

• I always knew that I was going to be a writer. There was no question in my mind about that.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Mind
  • Question
  • Always

• Kabir Khan is a director who goes out of his way to make his actors comfortable. He's very chilled out. He makes the environment on set very casual and friendly.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Way
  • Environment
  • Director

• From a very early age, I made my decisions based on careers that I admire. The one thing that all the actresses I love have in common is that they have diversity in their careers.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Love
  • Age
  • Diversity

• There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Always
  • Someone
  • Toy

• Even today, I dare not say that I have reached a state of achievement. I'm still learning, for learning is boundless.

  

  Bruce Lee
  • Today
  • Learning
  • Achievement

• Because work takes up a lot of time, you have to choose your moments for really letting rip. I hang out with my friends and my family and I spend time with my kids when I'm not working. They don't see my being an actor as exotic. For them, it's just an everyday thing. Sometimes it's amusing to them and other times, embarrassing.

  

  Aidan Gillen
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Man
  • Almost

• Yes, people do come across the street to say hi, but as they approach and get near, my perception of space begins to dissolve, and a new interest takes over that is primarily emotional, and with it comes a desire to touch, which may be a human interest, but not the interest of my work.

  

  Diego Giacometti
  • People
  • Work
  • May

• Meditation hasn't separated me from my life and my friends and my work. It's just made my fear go away, so I can just be that much more engaged.

  

  Rivers Cuomo Weezer
  • Life
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