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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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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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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Well, you know, Thomas Jefferson, who was the author of the Declaration of Independence said he wouldn't have any atheists in his cabinet because atheists wouldn't swear an oath to God. That was Jefferson and we have never had any Muslims in the cabinet.
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As a result of the asthma I was sent to school in the country, and only visited Sydney for brief, violently asthmatic sojourns on my way to a house we owned in the Blue Mountains.
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I am much more interested in the process than results.
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New York's definitely got my heart.
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
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I love to hang out with boys - I've got brothers - but I'm a girl's girl, in all the ways you can be girlie. Nails and chats and gossip magazines and reality TV and pop culture.
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I was home schooled, so I never got a yearbook.
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I'm an independent fashion house.
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So yes, I say things I regret constantly, and I just can't help it.
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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.
