Jarvis Cocker Quotes
I do want to have that feeling that people are actively involved in something, rather than just consuming something. I suppose that's what it comes down to, because it's such a dominant capitalist society, everything becomes a consumer product. And I don't think that's really appropriate to the creative arts, really.

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What we need to do is break the financial community's grip on society.
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How you leave the reader is so important - not the climax; I call it the 'exit feeling'.
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I was told that when I'm dancing, I give off the feeling of a rainy day.
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I went to a Canadian college for performing arts and then I auditioned for Canadian Idol. That honestly was my golden ticket.
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Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.
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A smile is so sexy, yet so warm. When someone genuinely smiles at you, it's the greatest feeling in the world.
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Conservatives sometimes forget that limiting government is not an end in itself but a means to a better society.
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I got my degree in culinary arts in 1978.
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The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon.
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Language lies outside of society because it is its foundation; but it also lies within society because that is the only place where it exists and the only place where it develops.
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The cynic makes fun of all earnestness; he makes fun of everything and everyone who feels that something can be done. . . . But in his heart of hearts he knows that he is a defeated man and that his cynicism is merely an expression of the fact that he has lost courage and is beaten.
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We decided to take our best shot and go at them. We didn't want to lose a Super Bowl by not being tough enough.
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I do want to have that feeling that people are actively involved in something, rather than just consuming something. I suppose that's what it comes down to, because it's such a dominant capitalist society, everything becomes a consumer product. And I don't think that's really appropriate to the creative arts, really.