Joe Cocker Quotes
I have sung to large crowds since then, and there is a feeling that once you get over 100,000 people, you kind of lose the control element, you don't know if you are really getting through or not.
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I'm the C.E.O., nominated by the shareholders. If they're not happy, I have to take the consequences.
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I've had the good fortune of studying the 17th-century art of Amsterdam in preparation for a film.
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We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off.
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Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
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To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
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All the things that happen to people in the industry today, the actors, what they have to put up with, all the people wanting to know every single moment of their lives - I think it's really sad.
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Public humiliation comes to us all, and never so surely as when we're just a little bit pleased with ourselves and feel, just for once, that everything is going our way.
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I don't really set out to please anybody, and I don't think I ever have. I have occasionally been encouraged to try to write something specifically for the purpose of releasing it as a single to get radio play. Those are not my best songs, as a rule.
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I'm committed to the goal of Senate Bill 324, and that is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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The numerous evils to which individual persons are exposed are due to the defects existing in the persons themselves. We complain and seek relief from our own faults; we suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them!
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Members of great teams confront each other when they see something that isn't serving the team.
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If you grew up in my generation, you're going to be influenced by Run DMC, the Beastie Boys and also listen to Metallica - it wasn't segregated anymore.
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Hollywood's all about, 'Let's make this easy: This is what you do, so you go over here in this group, and we're not gonna call you.'
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In our society, everyone wants to be a celebrity overnight.
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You are an athlete when you're onstage. You can't get tired.
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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
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Things happen for a reason. I'm happy, but not I'm not satisfied with the things I'm doing.
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America's grossly unfair tax system won't lead to class war. Or, if it does, the war will be brief.
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I've been around for such a long time. My first hit record was over 20 years ago and the people who bought my records then are married now and they probably still play these records and their children like them.
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Living in the projects helped me with this role.
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With what reason canst thou expect that thy children should follow thy good instructions, when thou thyself givest them an ill example? Thou dost but as it were beckon to them with thy head, and shew them the way to heaven by thy good counsel, but thou takest them by the hand and leadest them in the way to hell by thy contrary example.
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In the country of pain we are each alone.
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I have sung to large crowds since then, and there is a feeling that once you get over 100,000 people, you kind of lose the control element, you don't know if you are really getting through or not.
