Rivers Cuomo Quotes
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Actually, I didn't like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked.
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Nearly all government advice on terrorism sacrifices practical particulars for an unalarming tone. The usual guidance is to maintain a three-day supply of food and water along with a radio, flashlight, batteries and first-aid kit.
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Acting is in your soul.
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Spontaneity is what travel is all about.
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When I see a dolphin, I know it's just as smart as I am.
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A couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all collapse.
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I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
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If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.
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In U.S. sports, you tend to be pretty strictly limited by the size of your team's market. When we heard that Villa was a club here that might be available, I had a strong feeling that a team in the West Midlands could be the chance to create something very special.
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I don't really yell at people.
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You learn who you really are in a fight - what you're really made of. You have to face yourself and rise above your own fears and failings.
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I'd love to make a thriller.
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Our way is straight and clear - the building up of a socialist democracy at home, with freedom and prosperity for all, and the maintenance of world peace and friendship with all nations abroad.
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Competition is like a treadmill. If you stand still, you get swept off. But when you run, you can never really get ahead of the treadmill and cover new terrain - so you never run faster than the speed that is set.
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The 100m is never stressful.
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Sarcasm is like cheap wine - it leaves a terrible aftertaste.
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There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
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Well, it's taken a long time to get the Department of Homeland Security established. It's taken a long time for the Congress to decide how much it wanted to fund.
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It's very tempting to have a nanny and live in a gated community and have a chef - I'd love to have a few dinners cooked for me. But I don't want that for my children. When they're older, if people say to them, 'Did you have a chef?' I want them to be shocked by the question.
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I think, to me, I was always taught you never approach any character as a villain. Every human being on earth really believes that they're doing the best thing. We all have our rationalizations.
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My father and his eight siblings grew up in the kind of poverty that Americans don't like to talk about unless a natural disaster like Hurricane Katrina strikes, and then the conversation only lasts as long as the news cycle. His family squatted in shacks. The children scavenged for food.
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My parents wanted to light my artistic candle. But over time, the definition of 'the arts' began to stretch. And as I got older, they suddenly realized, Oh, my God, we're the parents of Iggy Pop.
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It is much easier to become a father than to be one.
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Now that I'm a father, I've forgiven my parents.
