Rivers Cuomo Quotes
When I was 15 and dreaming about being a rock star... I thought the whole point of it was to get chicks.
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I think all chefs who pursue great flavor have good ethics.
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I think of novels in architectural terms. You have to enter at the gate, and this gate must be constructed in such a way that the reader has immediate confidence in the strength of the building.
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We hope the stories of the 14 kids in 'American High' provide something for many people to relate to.
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Muzzle a dog and he will bark out of the other end.
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I like to be underdressed rather than overdressed. For an event or a premiere, it's fun to dress up more - then I like to experiment.
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Whether I sound like Sammy or not is purely coincidence. You have got to hand it to him, he sings his ass off. There is no moss on that stone.
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I would love to get great performances from actors as a director, because that's what I'm always looking for, a director that's going to help me go places I've never been before.
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I would ask my mother to show me how to walk - and she did show me. That's why I think it's funny when people say, 'Did so-and-so teach you how to walk?' And I always say, 'You must be talking about my mother, because it was my mother who taught me how to walk.'
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We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.
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I want to thank all the women who have worn my clothes, the famous and the unknown, who have been so faithful to me and given me so much joy.
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Luckily, I work for a company that promotes on performance.
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I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.
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My grandparents lived in Hollywood, and I was surrounded by the romanticism of movies ever since I was a child.
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To have so many years in the rap industry and so many number one songs, and sold so many millions of records, introduced the world to people like Cool & Dre, DJ Khaled, Pitbull, Rick Ross, Trick Daddy, Remy Ma, Big Pun, Rico Love... I could go on and on. Having been able to influence the rap game for so long is very important to me.
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You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator.
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The world is a global economy. I thought, 'It's a bummer we don't have a unifying currency.' Then I saw Bitcoin had already had a crash and had the resistance to recover. The community was strong enough to push it through again. That's really exciting.
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I am so excited to extend myself behind the scenes as a designer and to - as my father puts it - finally have a real job.
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The evangelical Christian faith I'd grown up with sustained me. It demanded that I refuse the drugs and alcohol on offer in our southwestern Ohio town, that I treat my friends and family kindly, and that I work hard in school. Most of all, when times were toughest, it gave me reason to hope.
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People like Howlin' Wolf, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, John Lee Hooker, Nina Simone, Captain Beefheart - all of these artists were what I grew up listening to every day of my life. And there's a very healthy music scene in the west country of England, where I grew up.
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I'm extremely lucky in that my wife is the chief scheduler.
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Without losers, where would the winners be?
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It is preposterous that the current members of the United States Senate and all of their predecessors for more than 200 years haven't been able to read the Constitution and do what it says.
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I had very, very little training in taking an exam to determine a scientist's life in France.
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When I was 15 and dreaming about being a rock star... I thought the whole point of it was to get chicks.
