Jarvis Cocker Quotes
Money isn't important, but you have to have enough, so you don't have to think about it. Thinking about money is a drag.
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I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world's best listener.
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When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.
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Many in Taiwan believe that Hu Jintao is much more sophisticated than his predecessors in understanding Taiwan. He represents a different generation of leaders, more pragmatic, less ideological.
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If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.
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An efficient government is dangerous in the hands of the wrong man. Sadly, the right sort of man never seems interested in the job.
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If you come to a negotiation table saying you have the final truth, that you know nothing but the truth and that is final, you will get nothing.
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I had really bad obsessive-compulsive disorder. At its worst, I was compelled to leave my house at three o'clock in the morning and go out in the alley because I just knew that the paper-towel roll I threw in the recycling bin was uncomfortable, like it was lying the wrong way, and I would be down in the garbage.
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Focus on remedies, not faults.
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I used to be affected by criticism thrown at me, and I would get really down. But I got to a point where I just decided to go for it, no matter what negativity is around you.
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I loved to read and to write, but then something happened. As I made my way through school, I kept getting handed books to read that didn't excite me and didn't even remotely connect to the realities of my life.
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He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.
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I think part of what I love about being an actor is getting to take on different worlds and investigate different genres and travel to different lands.
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Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period.
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I think Hollywood wants to be safe. The things you do first become your calling card, and I think people just sort of go, 'Well, we know he can do that.' They kind of put you in that hole.
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Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.
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From day one, I got addicted to being on stage and getting the applause and laughter.
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Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
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I don't intentionally go: 'Ooh, what is provocative,' and try to do that. I just do stuff, and people go: 'Ooh, that's provocative.'
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I'll admit, sometimes I've paid the bills with acting. You know the phrase, 'It's one for the money, two for the showreel.' I don't want that as a director. I don't want to compromise myself. There's a big old wide world out there. I want to explore it.
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I wish that I wasn't such an odd mixture. I wish I was serious, but I do love high heels and romantic comedies: being in them and watching them.
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The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or delusion.
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When you've been on a programme called 'An Idiot Abroad' job offers aren't exactly flying in.
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Money isn't important, but you have to have enough, so you don't have to think about it. Thinking about money is a drag.
