Jarvis Cocker Quotes

Unless you're living on the street and surviving on a diet of discarded turkey drumsticks, there's no point in being gloomy. We've spent too long trying to cheer ourselves up by spending money on brightly coloured things we don't really need. We've stopped using our imaginations.

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• What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Mind
  • Compassion
  • Results

• Our number one priority is to spend every peso possible to include those who are currently excluded.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Priority
  • Possible
  • Spend

• I don't get irrational about it, but I do have a deeply-rooted competitive spirit. Not necessarily towards other people, but towards any obstacle that I set for myself.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • People
  • Myself
  • Spirit

• Certainly, I devote my energy to both telling my personal life story and seeking self- obliteration. However, I will not destroy myself through art.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Life
  • Art
  • Energy

• All of the songs my grandparents and parents listened to are called boleros - they're all love songs. They're about giving your heart to a person. It's a culture that is so romantic and passionate, and that's something that I'm very proud of. We grew up with nothing, so we just want to live a life full of love.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
  • Life
  • Up
  • Live

• I feel to look for perfection is a very dangerous path. More than that, it's dangerous because it doesn't exist. You can aim for it, but you already know you won't get there because it doesn't exist. Plus, I definitely think the flaws, little cracks, and accidents are a lot more interesting.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Think
  • Interesting
  • Path

• After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • People
  • Society
  • Rest

• The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage, but that it contradicts our most deeply held notions of being.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • Problem
  • Being
  • Stage

• I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • House
  • Paris
  • Now

• I don't feel that I've had a life of abuse or that I am a victim in any way. My life is pretty typical of a lot of Americans of my generation who grew up in the sixties in families like mine that were sort of unconventional.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Life
  • Generation
  • Abuse

• If I grew up in 'da hood,' it would make my story so much more interesting - if I had something to escape from. I had a pretty good life. My parents weren't rich; they weren't poor. I wasn't trying to escape from anything. It was always just the pursuit of something cooler.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't have an open mind about.

  

  Randy Newman
  • People
  • Music
  • Mind

• I didn't actually begin professionally acting until I was 30.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Acting
  • Actually
  • Begin

• The Yale group was doing the Harold. So by our senior year we were trying to do the Harold. Again, we had no idea what we were doing. We had one guy in the group who was pretty experimental; he would kind of push us to do weird things. It was really fun, a great experience.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Great
  • Trying
  • Experience

• I'd seen 'Punky Brewster,' I'd seen 'Webster,' I saw 'Annie,' and it was time to either be an orphan or an actress.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • Time
  • Actress
  • saw

• I don't wanna be preached to. Unless it's in a beautiful voice, I don't want that.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Want
  • Beautiful
  • Voice

• It would be ridiculous for me to say anything negative regarding blacks having an equal opportunity on TV.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • Opportunity
  • Negative
  • Ridiculous

• Take chances, find your voice in fashion, and find what you like, and find what makes you feel good, and do that.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Good
  • Fashion
  • Feel Good

• There was a great deal of peer recognition to be gained in elementary school by being able to draw well. One girl could draw horses so well, she was looked upon as a kind of sorceress.

  

  Chris Van Allsburg
  • Great
  • School
  • She

• Given the volume of PC sales and the way McAfee runs its operation, I imagine there must be thousands of phantom subscribers - folks who signed up once upon a time and left the software behind two or three computers ago.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Up
  • Time
  • Sales

• A user interface should be so simple that a beginner in an emergency can understand it within 10 seconds.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • Simple

• Da'esh and Assad are not separate problems.

  

  Jo Cox

• The American people want to have trust in their leaders.

  

  David Plouffe
  • People
  • American
  • Trust

• Unless you're living on the street and surviving on a diet of discarded turkey drumsticks, there's no point in being gloomy. We've spent too long trying to cheer ourselves up by spending money on brightly coloured things we don't really need. We've stopped using our imaginations.

  

  Jarvis Cocker Pulp
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