Jarvis Cocker Quotes

A song can't be completely serious if you rhyme melodic with alcoholic.

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• Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.

  

  Karl Popper
  • Problem
  • Possible
  • Theory

• I'm not being secretive about anything. I just actually don't have opinions about society.

  

  Tao Lin
  • Society
  • Just
  • Opinions

• I spent years studying the teachings of Patanjali, and he reminded us several thousand years ago that when we are steadfast - which means that we never slip in our abstention of thoughts of harm directed toward others - then all living creatures cease to feel enmity in our presence.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Thoughts
  • Presence
  • Studying

• I grew up around old stuff that was not necessarily valuable, but certainly unusual.

  

  Gail Z. Martin
  • Up
  • Old
  • Valuable

• You can't teach the old maestro a new tune.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • You
  • Teach
  • Old

• I am a Marxist Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Life
  • Day
  • My Life

• I like black because it is a vacant space.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Black
  • Space
  • Like

• If someone throws you in a pool and you can't swim, you're going to struggle.

  

  Bernard Sumner New Order
  • Struggle
  • Pool

• Selling wine is all about sizing people up, and it takes a certain amount of chutzpah. The tableside bottle sell is a very funny thing - you take a look at the guy's blazer, what kind of shoes he's wearing, what kind of broad he's with. Is he trying to be a hero?

  

  Joe Bastianich
  • People
  • Up
  • Trying

• Everyone expects me to be 9 feet tall and weigh 200 pounds when they meet me.

  

  Khloe Kardashian

• If you want someone, you have to be willing to wait for them and trust that what you have is real and strong enough for them to wait for you. If somebody jumps ship for you, that fact will always haunt you because you'll know they're light on their feet. Spare yourself the paranoia and the pain and walk away until the coast is clear.

  

  Jameela Jamil
  • Real
  • Strong
  • Light

• On paper, I refuse to position myself as a victim and say, 'Oh, see, this is hard for me, and I'm never going to get any work because they're never gonna look for a half-French, half-Cambodian girl.' I've always said, 'Carry on and work on your job, and at some point, it'll come.'

  

  Elodie Yung
  • Work
  • Job
  • Girl

• At 90, I'm still working a couple of dates a month. My mind is very sharp on the stage, so why not? This may sound corny, but I do it because people - young and old - still come to see me, and they're very enthusiastic about my work. They treat me like the Godfather.

  

  Don Rickles
  • People
  • Work
  • Mind

• If I was to direct a movie about a super-confident guy, first of all I would hate that character. I can do a super-confident guy who crashes and burns and has to rebuild himself as somebody humble. But a super-confident guy that just gets more confident and gets the girl and the money and more success? That's not interesting.

  

  Louis Leterrier
  • Money
  • Character
  • Movie

• The printed newspaper is a powerful showcase for news, opinion and advertising.

  

  Jill Abramson
  • Powerful
  • Opinion

• The thing about politicians in Britain is that they are out there, you can lobby them, get close to them, there are loads of ways you can protest against them, and booing is a pretty weak way of doing it.

  

  Alastair Campbell
  • Pretty

• I'm a little bit of a makeout king. I don't discriminate too much.

  

  Pete Wentz Fall Out Boy
  • King

• There is no better place to plot the death of a character than when you're miserable and working out.

  

  Brad Meltzer
  • Character
  • Death

• I think Tesla will most likely develop its own autopilot system for the car, as I think it should be camera-based, not Lidar-based. However, it is also possible that we do something jointly with Google.

  

  Elon Musk
  • Car

• When I met Letterman, he told me he thought 'Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)' was the greatest Christmas song he ever heard, and he wanted me to be on his show to sing it.

  

  Darlene Love
  • Home
  • Song
  • Baby

• Miserable Orpheus who, turning to lose his Eurydice, beholds her for the first time as well as the last.

  

  Cyril Connolly
  • Time

• Writing for me is not a premeditated act. It just happens - characters keep coming out of nowhere and doing things I never expected them to do. The most persistent and most productive of these has been Paul Christopher, whom I didn't expect to see again after he appeared in 'The Miernik Dossier.'

  

  Charles McCarry
  • Writing

• A song can't be completely serious if you rhyme melodic with alcoholic.

  

  Jarvis Cocker Pulp
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  • Alcoholic