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 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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Whenever the lion fish in the fish tank in the captain's ready room died it was always a sad moment.
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I know that some of the finest writing I've ever read has been sports writing, whatever the topic was, whatever the sport they were writing about. It seems to be an area where people are allowed a little more leeway than when they're reporting on traffic jams and city-council meetings.
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So many interviews, even ones that I consider really intelligent and good writers, will do the, like, 'Oh, you're not taking your clothes off like Miley Cyrus and all these girls' thing, which to me is just the weirdest thing to say to someone. ... Now when people are like, 'Tell me what you think of Miley!' I'll say, 'What do you think of Miley?' and they'll flounder and say, 'Well, I think she's really talented...' and I'm like, there you go.
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The basic story for Golden Spike is that we discovered a way to create do-it-yourself Apollo programs for other countries.
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Rock guitar has been around for decades now, and there are so many strong traditions, and so much of it is just burned into my fingers. So, nine times out of 10, when I pick up the guitar to jam something, it sounds pretty cliche.
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Gymnastics was my calling. I think it chose me in a lot of ways.
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When I look back, I didn't take care of myself at all.
