Joe Cocker Quotes
I used to get so carried away while I was on stage that I'd be physically damaged by the end of a concert.
Quotes to Explore
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For every benefit conferred, God is to be praised in his gifts. Otherwise when the time of judgment comes, that man will be punished as an ingrate who cannot say to God: 'Your statutes were my song in the land of exile.'
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He told us he was going to take crime out of the streets. He did. He took it into the damn White House.
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There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
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My songs are a mix of my own weird raised-by-wolves perspective and civilization.
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I predicted in 1950 that in five years, manufacturers the world over would be screaming for protection. It took only four years.
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I did anything that would get me on the air.
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Cliff Stearns talks about what he did to Planned Parenthood, making Solyndra a household name - why didn't he do this sooner? Why didn't he see it coming? It's the oversight committee, not the hindsight committee.
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I just have a harder time, I think, feeling close to people without self consciousness.
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I'm not a pessimist at all, but I'm not an optimist, either.
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I still can't believe that I went on 'The Colbert Report' myself; for the appearance I wore a lot of makeup, my hair was curled like a poodle's, and I could barely breathe in my Spanx undergarments. But, hey - an authoress has to lean in, right?
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The 'Police Academy' stuff was all hyper-slapsticky.
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Everybody will make mistakes, and for some that mistake will rise to the level of being a crime.
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Everybody I grew up with has incredible self-confidence and self-assurance. We were all loud, outspoken, wild kids and were celebrated for it.
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The United States of America was formed to honor the word of God.
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They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.
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Basketball is my favorite sport, and I'm also a very passionate football fan.
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A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.
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Many well-meaning intelligent people have argued since the May 17, 1954, decision of the United States Supreme Court outlawing segregation in the public schools that communication between the races has broken down.
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I don't appreciate avant-garde, electronic music. It makes me feel quite ill.
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To know ourselves, is agreed by all to be the most useful Learning; the first Lessons, therefore, given us ought to be on that Subject.
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I used to get so carried away while I was on stage that I'd be physically damaged by the end of a concert.
