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 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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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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When I was about 12, I was studying Chinese and ballet with my brother, and one morning Jonathan said to me, 'I don't think I'm going to go to ballet class anymore,' and I looked at him and said, 'You know, I don't think I'm going to go to Chinese class anymore.'
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I get a lot of disbelief that my accent could actually be real, which seems strange.
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Rural voters believed the Democrats traded millions in campaign cash at their expense. Along came a guy named Trump to give these voters a political voice.
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The intercourse between the Mediterranean and the North or between the Atlantic and Central Europe was never purely economic or political; it also meant the exchange of knowledge and ideas and the influence of social institutions and artistic and literary forms.
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You can't trust politicians. It doesn't matter who makes a political speech. It's all lies - and it applies to any rock star who wants to make a political speech as well.
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It is really just having more of them.
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It's a lot more fun for actors to cry and rant and rave, or have a drug problem or a drinking problem.
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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.
