Joe Cocker Quotes

When I look back, I didn't take care of myself at all.

Joe Cocker

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• I have two older brothers. I am the baby. We're all very, very close. We're great communicators, so we get along really well.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Baby
  • Brothers
  • Communicators

• I could live very quietly, do advertising to earn money.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Live
  • Money
  • Advertising

• If I have a Sunday free, I'll go up the coast and spend some time on the beach. I scuba dive and swim and sail. A lot of the things I like are around the water.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Free

• I just started making Bloody Marys. I always thought they looked gross, then I tasted one. There's an art to it, from the Tabasco to the Worcestershire.

  

  Tara Reid
  • Art
  • Thought
  • Just

• If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • Women
  • Government
  • Politics

• I like to do my own make-up.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Up
  • Like
  • Own

• I have been in America only once since Mr. Clinton became your president - as a speaker at the United Nations.

  

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi
  • America
  • United Nations

• The fact that we're protected under that Constitution in exercising the right of free speech, it's a wonderful thing. You've got to come from somewhere else to realize how valuable it is.

  

  Pat Oliphant
  • Free
  • You
  • Speech

• I love to rock 'n roll. But my finest suit, of all the things I do, is as a songwriter.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • Rock
  • Things
  • Songwriter

• Anyone who creates something new or does something different artistically is going to be singled out.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • Different
  • New
  • Something

• At 62, I remain clean and sober and my ponytail remains erect.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Clean
  • Sober
  • Ponytail

• I went to theater school, and if I spent time with one school of thought in this whole acting game, it's the Meisner approach of improvise-based acting. This does not mean that you improvise your acting, but that you focus on the other person.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • Time
  • School
  • Game

• If I didn't have my profession, I think I would be sitting in a nuthouse. But I have been unceasingly at work, and this has been very healthy for me. So I had no need for therapy.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Work
  • Think
  • Healthy

• It's good fun, yes, but when we play, we take it seriously and want to do well.

  

  Hansie Cronje
  • Good
  • Fun
  • Want

• Whenever the lion fish in the fish tank in the captain's ready room died it was always a sad moment.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Sad
  • Moment
  • Lion

• The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne. For a man by nothing is so well bewrayd, As by his manners.

  

  Edmund Spenser

• Understanding that being nervous, having doubts and lacking confidence are emotions that are human is how you deal with it. It is okay to feel that way... and then understanding that you can work through it.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Work
  • Understanding
  • Confidence

• I guess because I came to it later in life, I realized, 'Oh, going to a fashion show is like going to the opening of Degas at the Met or going to see Swan Lake.'

  

  Kerry Washington
  • Life
  • Fashion
  • Lake

• The man who does not wish to belong to the mass needs only to cease taking himself easily; let him follow his conscience, which calls to him: 'Be your self! All you are now doing, thinking, desiring, is not you yourself.'

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Thinking
  • Wish

• Cleaning and painting finished, the next target was the big ware press in the parlour. Out came delicate china which had been in the family for years. My mother's respect for the Stations weighed against her fear of breakage, but the Stations won every time. Once when a precious jug was broken she mourned it for days, telling us all how long it had been in the family. Finally, Dan, our part-time travelling farm worker, said, "Missus, if it was here that long it was time to break it." And that was the end of that.

  

  Alice Taylor
  • China
  • Breakage

• When I look back, I didn't take care of myself at all.

  

  Joe Cocker