Jarvis Cocker Quotes
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On issue after issue, the Obama Administration has openly ignored, defied, and unilaterally tried to change the law.
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Where love is, there God is also.
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My message to the ladies would be, you can do all of the things, but not all of them at the same time.
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There's only two givens with choosing acting as a profession: one is you will always be unemployed, always, and it doesn't matter how much money you make, you're still always going to be unemployed; and that you have no power.
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If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues initials on them and pass them along. When in doubt, route.
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I hope they can see that as a consumer, if they express themselves, they may make an impact and leverage their impact on the brands, and the brands can leverage their buying power on tens of thousands of polluters - suppliers - in China.
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Put your consumers in focus, and listen to what they're actually saying, not what they tell you.
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I like to make people think a little bit.
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I'm a relic, and things were a lot different when I was fifteen and sixteen. There were no cell phones, no laptops... I learned to type on an actual typewriter.
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It's a very fascinating thing for an actor to play somebody who is suffering, and you have to express the suffering, but in an inarticulate way and sometimes a dysfunctional way, through violence.
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My father is a businessman, and my mother is a schoolteacher.
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Nobody is faster than me.
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What I love best in life is new starts.
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There's parts of it that I connect to - being a father and everything - but 'Mamma Mia!' allows me to go out there and be me and have fun. I've never really had the chance to do that with so much freedom.
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I'd love to do a sci-fi movie, a western, or an espionage thriller. But I'm not going to limit myself. If a good script comes along, I'm not going to discount it because it doesn't fit into one of these genres.
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People sometimes tell me that I don't talk or act or look like a metal fan. Well, what does a metal fan look like? I've found people from all walks of life who love metal.
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I've had a lot of folks tell me that my songs weren't quite country because they didn't really sound like anybody that had come along and done it before me. I felt a little out of place for a while.
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The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.
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You have to punch hard for knockouts, and to beat me, you have to knock me out.
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I have a man cave somewhere in California - a totally undisclosed location where manly things occur. There are motorcycles, there are secret doors and passageways. Women are welcome, but they must knock.
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For every door the computers have closed they have opened a new one.
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It was one of the most pernicious fallacies, common the world over: old ways are best. But old ways can outlast their usefulness. Old ways can live on pointlessly in worlds that have no room for them.
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You have to believe that it's through politics that societies can lead social and economic and political change.
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A Conservative government is necessary. There is no credible alternative.
