Joe Cocker Quotes
Once you get into entertaining a quarter of a million people, it's a very weird place to be.
Quotes to Explore
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When I first came out with my fans and the wind hit me, I almost took off.
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You don't stay married for thirty-nine years because of sex or even because of love, but because your partner is a real friend to you, because they respect and regard you.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
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I grew up playing basketball and baseball. I've always been active because my dad played professional football, so sports and working out have always been a part of my life.
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I like to be underdressed rather than overdressed. For an event or a premiere, it's fun to dress up more - then I like to experiment.
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Sometimes I'm happy - you can tell via Twitter. Sometimes I'm pissed off - you can tell via Twitter. I just think, at the end of the day, I don't want them to see me as a celebrity; I just want them to see me and say, 'He's like a regular person at his job right now who's mad.'
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Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
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Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?
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Let the path be open to talent.
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Afghanistan has moved forward and Afghanistan will defend itself. And the progress that we have achieved, the Afghan people will not allow it to be put back or reversed.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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As a race, the Negroes are not lazy.
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Nobody can write better jokes putting me down than me.
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If we cling to the institution of Islam, then we tend to defend it against whatever we see as a danger to it, so because of this we see now that many people are defending states, defending territories, defending everything institutional in the belief that they defend Islam.
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I have a friendship with Hezbollah, and I also have contacts outside of Lebanon, but it doesn't mean I follow anyone's agenda.
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Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history, but it's not very deep.
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I am an arm hitter. When you snap the bat with your wrists just as you meet the ball, you give the bat tremendous speed for a few inches of its course. The speed with which the bat meets the ball is the thing that counts.
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When I was five or six, I asked to sing at a big family party, and ever since I got up there in front of everyone in my suit - it had a blue collar, like in 'Scarface' - I had the bug.
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No one is an environmentalist by birth. It is only your path, your life, your travels that awaken you.
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I'm an Air force Brat and I've lived all over the world and this country and there were people in my community who were gay - nurses, hairdressers, designers - people who just had a different way about themselves.
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Once you get into entertaining a quarter of a million people, it's a very weird place to be.
