Joe Cocker Quotes
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Valentine's Day itself, like most holidays in the modern era, has been heavily influenced by commercialism that focuses on the appeal of romantic fantasies.
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Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us.
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I love working with the Farrelly brothers. I'm a big fan and feel very lucky to have gotten to work with them a few times. One thing that I learned while working with them is that you have to keep your cell phone off when filming scenes, or you owe them a lot of money!
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Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
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I think the only choice that will enable us to hold to our vision... is one that abandons the concept of naming enemies and adopts a concept familiar to the nonviolent tradition: naming behavior that is oppressive.
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In conversion you are not attached primarily to an order, nor to an institution, nor a movement, nor a set of beliefs, nor a code of action - you are attached primarily to a Person, and secondarily to these other things.
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I am not a gamer. Not since the days of Atari.
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When there are multiple versions of a story, you really have three ways to go. You can pick the most sensational version. You can try to balance things in your gut to get to what you think is the honest truth. Or you can err on the side of kindness.
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As a first movie, 'The Hobbit' is not a bad place to start.
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Joseph Warren, like a lot of revolutionary leaders, was into Enlightenment literature.
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So many girls only care about guys and looking good all the time.
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I've had many mentors, but the one that has the most impact was my mother.
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The frustrating part of being tagged 'controversial' is people go looking for trouble where there isn't any to look for.
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In maybe 1963, we had 'Collier's Encyclopedia,' and they sent us their yearly LP. I heard the Beatles talking on there. That was the first time I tried altering my voice, doing a Liverpudlian accent.
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I feel like I enjoy the company of Whoopi deeply, and my private life is my private life.
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I have to extend my admiration and respect for Sam Esmail, who is a visionary with what he's done with 'Mr. Robot,' and this brilliant resurgence of Christian Slater only helped us get where we are today - very talented individual.
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When we were filming 'The Darkest Hour,' we didn't even know what the aliens were going to look like, we didn't even have a graphic reference. So it was definitely a big challenge to sell those kind of extreme moments when you're just generating them from your own imagination.
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I had the naive, simplistic idea that producers and writers and artists of the time helped in a minuscule way to change the mind-set of America.
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When I was born I brought no joy, my father said he wanted a boy!
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One way to mitigate our risk is to invest in companies with understandable business models.
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I'm 21 years old, and it's kind of uncomfortable for me to talk about, but I'm in the 1 percent as far as my income and tax bracket. But now that I'm here, there's no amount of money you can wave in front of my face that will make me understand depriving people of human rights.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.
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As you get older, you treasure the beautiful things of the past but also see things more clearly.
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I've been touring now since about '68.
