Jarvis Cocker Quotes
I do write songs with a political dimension to them sometimes, but I'm always slightly appalled by it when I do.
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I'd heard stories about business managers who lost their client's money. My feeling was that if I made any money, I wanted to lose it myself, to be the author of my own demise.
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I said it several times: a blow you are getting from a friend is still a blow, but more painful.
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I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.
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My life has changed in many ways, both on an economic and personal level. All major league players are accorded the respect they deserve. In Cuba, it was not that way. National team players were not respected. The treatment was not adequate.
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I'm really thankful to God, man. Like now, I'm really making a real comeback with my group. With or without a record, with or without a movie. And behind all the negative press behind this movie.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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Twitter should ban my mother.
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You can't reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you'll never lose people knowing you.
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I tried college and I hated that. I seem to quit everything I do.
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Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
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Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
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I don't putt face-on exclusively, but in the back on my mind I'm haunted by the notion that I'm sure it's the best way to putt.
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I'm fascinated by the way Diane Arbus saw things. She came from this fashion background and then twisted it.
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Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
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No, you never get any fun out of the things you haven't done.
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I love Chicago. It's one of my favorite cities, hands down.
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I'm a plodder, one foot in front of the other. Life is all about understanding that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. And it's your ability with how you deal with that adversity that ultimately affects your success.
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I really believe that, as human beings, we have an innate need to explore, to see what's around the corner.
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At first, we lived in very, very small places... with my mom cleaning houses and scrounging up just enough to keep us in town with a working car. She introduced me to my first agent, and I started with stand-in work, then eventually commercials and television guest-shots.
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'You Must Remember This', the podcast about 'the secret and or forgotten history of Hollywood's first century', has a thread dedicated to Dead Blondes, which is a clue to where it's coming from.
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For almost two centuries, American gray wolves, vilified in fact as well as fiction, were the victims of vicious government extermination programs. By the time the Endangered Species Act was passed in 1973, only a few hundred of these once-great predators were left in the lower 48 states.
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As soon as one returns to Doubt (if it could be said that one has ever left it), undertaking anything at all seems not so much useless as extravagant. Doubt works deep within you like a disease, or even more effectively, like a faith.
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I do write songs with a political dimension to them sometimes, but I'm always slightly appalled by it when I do.
