Jarvis Cocker Quotes
If you're in a band or think of yourself as a slightly creative person, you can get quite self-indulgent, so sometimes it's nice to have those people who bring you down to earth, but in a pleasant way.Jarvis Cocker Pulp
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A person that says, 'Losing is not difficult,' I don't even want to be around that person. And obviously, that person has never won anything relevant in their life.
Cam Newton -
I'm not a great fiction reader. I love history. I love history and philosophy.
Eddie Marsan -
I am convinced after more than 50 years in the field of motivation that anyone who wants to learn to look at life and/or their circumstances in a positive light can do so.
Zig Ziglar -
I laugh at what I used to think was cool when I was growing up. In all seriousness, I thought having braces was cool.
Rachel Nichols -
No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.
Victor Hugo -
I don't think anybody's really been successful with theorizing about value or creating a price theory.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I've always had an interest in sports across the board.
Gabrielle Union -
I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.
Baltasar Gracian -
In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.
Earl Warren -
I'm interested in complexity, in the mathematical sense, as well as the idiomatic sense. The idea of emergence - that it's possible for complex patterns to arise out of many simple interactions - is fascinating.
Hari Kunzru -
Music infuses your spirit with a certain energy that I try to convey in my work.
Oscar Hijuelos -
The kings of Spain brought us the conquistadores and masters, whose footprints remained in the circular land grants assigned to those searching for gold in the sands of rivers, an abusive and shameful form of exploitation, traces of which can be noted from the air in many places around the country.
Fidel Castro
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The people who harvest America's food must be treated with respect and earn a living wage.
Frances Beinecke -
I think fearless is having fears but jumping anyway.
Taylor Swift -
There are signs, I think, that people aren't satisfied by consumerism: that people resent the fact that the most moral decision in their lives is choosing what colour their next car will be.
J. G. Ballard -
I was fooling everyone by surrounding myself with funny people. But then I put myself out there - writing my own sketches, going on stage with nobody surrounding me - and for some reason people were still laughing.
Carly Craig -
It may be doubted whether any character can be named which is distinctive of a race and is constant.
Charles Darwin -
To live in prison is to live without mirrors. To live without mirrors is to live without the self. She is living selflessly, she finds a hole in the stone wall and on the other side of the wall, a voice. The voice comes through darkness and has no face. This voice becomes her mirror.
Margaret Atwood
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My parents were strict and taught me the proper fundamentals that I would use in my life. They taught me commitment to work hard.
Billy Casper -
Any business that does not innovate will fail over time.
Nolan Bushnell -
I was kind of bored playing drums in a band. Which was depressing, because playing in the band was kind of a golden ticket.
J. Tillman -
They all attributed the peaceful dominion of religion in their country mainly to the separation of church and state. I do not hesitate to affirm that during my stay in America I did not meet a single individual, of the clergy or the laity, who was not of the same opinion on this point.
Alexis de Tocqueville -
The novelist, he's not a philosopher, not a technician of spoken language. He's someone who writes, above all, and through the novel asks questions.
J. M. G. Le Clezio -
If you're in a band or think of yourself as a slightly creative person, you can get quite self-indulgent, so sometimes it's nice to have those people who bring you down to earth, but in a pleasant way.
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