Joe Cocker Quotes
Once you get into entertaining a quarter of a million people, it's a very weird place to be.
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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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Anyone who says the American Constitution is obsolete just because social and economic conditions have changed does not understand the real genius of the Constitution. It was designed to control something which has not changed and will not change—namely, human nature.
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What I responded to, on the page, was the way a poem could liberate, by means of a word's setting, through subtleties of timing, of pacing, that word's full and surprising range of meaning. It seemed to me that simple language best suited this enterprise.
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Believing that the power to destroy belongs to the Creator alone I affirm... that any theory which, when carried out, demands the annihilation of force, is necessarily erroneous.
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The real business of your life as a saved soul is intercessory prayer.
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If there is one constant in the ebb and flow of our island story, it is the character of the British people.
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Once you get into entertaining a quarter of a million people, it's a very weird place to be.
