Joe Cocker Quotes
There are people who'll dismiss me as 'just' a singer. That's how it is, how it's always been, but just because I'm not hunched over a piece of paper with a pen in my hand doesn't mean I'm not putting in the graft.
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You go to a theater now and you literally see parents watching the movie and they suddenly cover their kid's ears. I figured I'd make one movie where they didn't have to do this.
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I'm not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.
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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
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So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.
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It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.
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People in the mass media tend more and more every day to look and act like elected and appointed officials.
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What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.
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We need to be very well aware of the fact that China and Russia are using technology to attack us, just as ISIS is using technology to recruit those who would murder American citizens.
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I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.
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The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.
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No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.
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National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane.
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Speed can't always get you wickets.
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I have a 'Mailer-Breslin and the 51st State' poster, and a neon-pink sign of Raoul's in SoHo, one of my favorite restaurants.
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I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortion she should... I do believe if you have an abortion you are committing murder.
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You realize when you're pregnant how lucky you are to have access to medical care.
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You don't want people rooting for anything other than the team that they love and the players that they think the world of to win. We don't want there to be another agenda.
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I came, I studied architecture in America, so my technical background's completely western. But my seventeen years, the formative years of one's life, and I can't say that the Chineseness in me is not there.
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You're basically like glass: People see the candidates through you.
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People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.
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I have to say, my husband is a big Patriots fan. Like, a huge Patriots fan.
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Our lives are without reason, nothing outside the individuality.
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There are people who'll dismiss me as 'just' a singer. That's how it is, how it's always been, but just because I'm not hunched over a piece of paper with a pen in my hand doesn't mean I'm not putting in the graft.
