Jarvis Cocker Quotes
In some ways, I always thought you're better off behaving like a rock star when you're a normal person. Because if you do it as a rock star, you'll end up in the papers and your life will be made a misery.
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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Our focus is on helping people develop the skills to find and keep a job. Instead of focusing on a war against poverty, we will focus on fighting for the poor among us by offering them hope and opportunity.
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To be slandered the way I get slandered is really uncalled for, but life goes on.
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No decent career was ever founded on a public.
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I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.
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With all the chaos, pain and suffering in the world, the fact that my adoption of a child from who was living in an orphanage, you know, was the number one story for a week in the world. To me, that says more about our inability to focus on the real problems.
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Now, I was on drugs, and that didn't help a whole lot. He hated that. That was part of where Chet and I had problems, so I take complete blame for that.
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In my early 20s I was so miserable doing construction, I wanted something that paid money. I liked nice stuff. I liked cars and architecture, and things that cost money. I wanted to not swing a hammer, and make money... and not do stuff that was dirty. I attempted to get into comedy. I started to do stand-up, but I wasn't very good at it.
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I am the middle child with an older and younger brother.
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Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.
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The strength of British theatre should be that these actors in their middle years know what they're doing and are good at it. Not rich, not famous, but making a living.
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Lawyers and other professionals are using Quora to build their reputation and build their bonafides.
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Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
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Jesus is still up in Heaven, thumbing through his Bible, going 'Where did I say build a water slide?'
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I was walking around bored one day, and I started filming stuff with my cellphone. There are all these shows where people are trying to do these outrageous stunts, and I thought it would be funny to do all these stunts that aren't outrageous but then act like they are.
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I like the language in Proust but not the context.
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We write the song, then it gets played for the artist, and they somehow fall in love with it and go back in and make it their own.
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I can't really see myself writing about politics because I'm not really into it, and one of the worst things you can do is write about things you're not into.
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Well I am always interested my people's right. But I will push myself to a revolution without arms.
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Every year, millions of people from Iran and Iraq travel to each other's countries, and we also have marriages between Iraqis and Iranians. Many Iranians were born in Iraq, and many Iraqis were born in Iran. This is a kind of special, cordial amicable ties.
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The connection between pathos and broad comedy is very tight. But you do far more work in a comedy scene than you do in a straight scene. It's much harder.
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In some ways, I always thought you're better off behaving like a rock star when you're a normal person. Because if you do it as a rock star, you'll end up in the papers and your life will be made a misery.
