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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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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Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting, and sing those lovely songs of hope and promise.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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Cancer didn't change me at all. I know lots of people talk about the life revelation. I didn't have that.
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In 2003, Travelex acquired Thomas Cook Financial Services. We only had use of the Thomas Cook name for five years, so I had to increase public awareness of Travelex to migrate all Cook operations over to it. It was a success.
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But I made no efforts to organize my supporters to hold on to the apparatus. Consequently I was soon expelled and my followers, who did not change coats overnight, quietly left or were expelled from the party.
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Everyone teases me in the family that I spend far too long chatting. So I think I've still got to learn a little bit more and to pick up a few more tips, I suppose.
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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.