Joe Cocker Quotes
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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.
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I could live very quietly, do advertising to earn money.
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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.
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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.
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If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.
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I like to do my own make-up.
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I have been in America only once since Mr. Clinton became your president - as a speaker at the United Nations.
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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.
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I love to rock 'n roll. But my finest suit, of all the things I do, is as a songwriter.
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Anyone who creates something new or does something different artistically is going to be singled out.
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At 62, I remain clean and sober and my ponytail remains erect.
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I'm not a success, I'm a sensation.
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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.
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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.
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Our value proposition to consumers is so much more about completeness than freshness. Having the complete season is so much more valuable, in our business model, than having last night's episode.
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I think a young woman's relationship with her father is really important.
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It's good fun, yes, but when we play, we take it seriously and want to do well.
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The Gothic tradition was begun by Ann Radcliffe, a rare example of a woman creating an artistic style.
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President Kennedy said that those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable. I would say that the converse is true.
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A spiritual master who is one hundred percent Krishna conscious is the bona fide spiritual master.
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Emmett Till and I were about the same age. A week after he was murdered... I stood on a corner with a gang of boys, looking at pictures of him in the black newspapers and magazines. In one, he was laughing and happy. In the other, his head was swollen and bashed in, his eyes bulging out of their sockets, and his mouth twisted and broken... I couldn't get Emmett Till out of my mind, until one evening I thought of a way to get back at white people for his death.
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Congress needs strong parties, but it also needs the capacity to deal with budget and entitlement challenges that are likely beyond the reach of pure partisan exertion.
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When I look back, I didn't take care of myself at all.
