Rivers Cuomo Quotes
I always loved the 'L.A. Weekly.' I totally looked up to it when Weezer was starting out, and I always wanted to be in it, and they always totally ignored us!
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I've got Asperger's syndrome and I'm not a very good people person, so I've always been more comfortable around machinery. Not in a weird way - I don't want to marry my car or anything stupid like that!
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I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.
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Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.
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If there's a strange way to do something, I would certainly like to know about it. I feel that I owe that to my public.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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I try to do two moot courts for every Supreme Court case (and one to two for courts of appeals), and to ensure I am being mooted by people who know the Supreme Court well and are coming to the case fresh.
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Humor's always been the problem of my work, hasn't it? When working, I feel satisfied when I surprise myself. And when I surprise myself, I wind up laughing.
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Beauty products always cheer me up and give me hope. If it makes you feel pretty, why not?
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Santorum is the greatest person on the face of the planet as far as I'm concerned.
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There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.
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When they are assailed by despair, young people should let universal concerns into their lives.
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You can't just keep recycling revivals. And you can't keep betting on the efforts of guys like me who've been around. You have to take the next step and bet on the next generation.
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The things that have really gotten confusing to me is how you balance the desires of your publishers to produce things on a schedule, and people are always sort of giving you ideas on what you should follow up with or how you should proceed next and things like that.
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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I had to quit ballet because it felt like a part of me was dying inside.
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Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.
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Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
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There are two sides to being pregnant. There is the beautiful, wonderful blessing side. The second side - it sucks!
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The entirety of 'Bellocq's Ophelia' was a project, and I was interested in doing research and looking at photographs and writing about them, imagining this woman Ophelia and what her life was like and the kinds of things she thought about.
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I just do a random roulette wheel version of what I've recorded or sometimes tunes I haven't recorded. It's a collection of whatever happens, happens.
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Education to me is the most important thing that we've got going in this country. I mean, a lot of my family are teachers. I was the recipient of a great public education, and I see that's one of the first things that we're going to go, 'What are we going to raise?' The ignorant masses.
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Having two kids, I don't get out to see stand up much anymore.
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I always loved the 'L.A. Weekly.' I totally looked up to it when Weezer was starting out, and I always wanted to be in it, and they always totally ignored us!
