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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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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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 simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.
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The magic of creation has always fascinated me.
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I like to be loved or hated – I don't like mediocre. So I'd rather have the entire crowd hate me than to have 90% hate me.
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We still want to idealize moms, and sometimes we want to idealize actresses who are moms, too. I know that's something I've experienced, but we're all just doing the best we can and we're all trying to raise our kids and talk to them about everything that needs to be discussed.
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for me the most fun of my career is to bring a little bit of irreverence to characters. And, you know, I don't think that the producers were expecting me to be as irreverent as I am.
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You're always going to have terrorism.
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I'm one of those pianists who tends to ignore every existing recording and lots of traditions about playing pieces when I start.
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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.
