Rivers Cuomo Quotes
I meditate two hours a day, and every year I do one big long meditation course. I love it, and I'm really into it.
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When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country.
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I get recognized so much. It happens mostly when I'm in Starbucks.
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If one line about the film excites me, I try to take it forward.
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It was very difficult when I was trying to figure out how to have a marriage and babies and do this at the same time. There was no handbook. You were making it up as you went along.
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It takes me about a week and a half to really analyze a game - play by play.
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I'm probably borderline OCD. I insist on having all objects at right angles to each other. So a fork has to be at a right angle to the knife on the table. The salt and pepper pots have to be placed close together. Only recently have I started to notice it's a weird way to behave.
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Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.
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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.
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I have been known to hang out and party back in the day. I had a weekend that lasted a few years.
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On one hand I am this weird androgynous tomboy where I'm strangely low maintenance and have a five-minute makeup regimen. On the other I'm obsessed with all things beauty, from skin care to makeup.
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I am originally a surd who was born in Delhi in 1982, just two years before the Sikh riots, so all my childhood pictures are in baby frocks with ponytails, as my parents wanted to hide the fact that I was a Sikh boy, given the riots. My dad worked for a travel agency, and we soon moved to Saudi Arabia.
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A lot of times, you think you want something, and then you find something completely different.
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Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers.
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If you take shortcuts, you get cut short.
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I differ materially from Capt. Lewis, in my account of the numbers, manners, and morals of the Sioux.
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Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
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So many people love sci-fi, and they're so loyal.
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Just because I don't show six-pack abs doesn't mean that I don't have them.
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Charisma is a sparkle in people that money can't buy. It's an invisible energy with visible effects.
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Most of the good people of my generation... had offers to become editors, but the thought of going inside was just absolutely horrifying.
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Horses know how to be loyal but still keep their distance.
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It's depressing and scary, but he needs to know the world around him because he's fourteen now and in two years he's going to drive. He needs to know what goes on out in the world. I'm not going to always be there.
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Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.
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I meditate two hours a day, and every year I do one big long meditation course. I love it, and I'm really into it.
