Joe Cocker Quotes
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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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I wouldn't give up on the U.N. yet.
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Gay marriage is going to happen. It must.
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Men fall in love with their eyes - they like what they see - and women fall in love with their ears - they like what they hear!
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It looks as though yields of over 10 times what we can currently grow per acre are feasible if you control the CO2 concentration, the humidity, the temperature, all the various factors that plants depend on to grow rapidly.
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When I left school at 16, I became an apprentice television and radio technician, and was paid £17 a week, which was decent money in 1976. But the job turned sour when I gave myself an electric shock while repairing a television set.
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I was introduced to cinema by C-grade films that played in my village, Budhana, in UP. Only films by Dada Kondke, Mahendra Sandhu, and Kanti Shah were available.
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It's nice not to have to live a double life.
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When I first started, especially because I got the Critics' Choice before I'd released an album, there was a lot of scrutiny on what my character was, what my background was, what colour my hair was. I fought quite hard for the music to overtake the personality aspect.
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I try to go to my parents' house as much as I can. No matter how busy we are as a family, we always make that time to have that 'family together' day because we want to. You can't let work and life get in the way of spending time together.
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I still think that I'm playing instruments, not just pushing buttons and there it goes. It's interactive and alive with the sound and the manipulation and it plays like instruments.
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Nothing in life is promised except death.
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The older I get and the longer I live in New York City, the more I have the desire to go elsewhere and be surrounded by nature.
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I had written a script called 'Freed,' which I had wanted to direct.
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The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.
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I think travel is probably the downside of playing professional golf, but you've got to do it.
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Failure saves lives. In the airline industry, every time a plane crashes the probability of the next crash is lowered by that. The Titanic saved lives because we're building bigger and bigger ships. So these people died, but we have effectively improved the safety of the system, and nothing failed in vain.
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The more you write tunes, the better they will become. The more you do gigs, the better you will become.
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If we internationalize everything, we end up with rules that stifle freedom and innovation.
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My mother came from Japan, and I really didn't understand her often. Now that I'm older, I do.
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I don't see how any African-American, with any inkling of history, can say that you don't have the right to live your life how you want to live your life. No one should be telling you who you should love, no one should be telling you who you should be spending the rest of your life with. When we start talking about equality, and everybody being treated equally, I don't want to know an African-American who will say everybody doesn't deserve equality.
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Dweezil and I are going on tour with the band probably starting in the middle of February for a month probably playing a few songs from my new record and then I'll continue on after that tour.
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I am the luckiest man in the world.
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I still like the stuff from the old days: Marvin Gaye, Donnie Hathaway.
