Joe Cocker Quotes
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It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may.
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My life is proof that I don't need you to do what I do. If there's no one to see it, I'll watch it.
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Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new.
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I like strong female characters. I try to write them as role models for young girls.
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I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
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Nice to see your home fans boo you. That's what loyal support is.
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Living in New York, for me at least, just keeps it very real and keeps my feet firmly planted on the ground.
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The Federal Reserve is incapable of accomplishing its stated objectives.
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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I played quarterback, and it was a leadership position, and even though I'm doing a solo thing now, a lot of my success is a part of assembling this team of people who are really, really talented, and their position doesn't put them out front the way mine does, but it's still a team effort.
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I'm still having fun, and I'm doing something and I'm seeing the world! I wasn't massively ambitious, but I did always want to do the best I could do.
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One thing I've done is surround myself with people who are as good as me or better.
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I think there's nothing more amazing than helping people every day.
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I find vacuuming very therapeutic, but I hate ironing. I usually have no shirt on while ironing, because I'm ironing it, and I end up burning my chest.
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Democracy requires common ground on which all can stand, but that ground is sinking beneath our feet, and democracy may be going down the sinkhole with it.
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All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
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I was reading about all of these medical and psychological experimental programs that the government and various intelligence agencies had run throughout the 20th century. Any book you can read on that, there's some really horrifying and fascinating stuff that goes on there.
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The greatest desire of my heart was for the Lord to manifest His will concerning me.
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The New Testament evinces its universal design in its very, style, which alone distinguishes it from all the literary productions of earlier and later times.
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I cannot tell how much my heart suffered for my people while at Leavenworth.
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I hit the ball early and move my wrist a lot, so I get bigger angles.
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I wrote 'The Hate U Give' as a short story while I was in college at a mostly white school in conservative Mississippi.
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I believe in spirits, not ghosts.
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It's all a matter of hearing what I like and seeing if I can make it fit into my style.
