Jarvis Cocker Quotes
My route so far through life hasn't been particularly logical, or even thought out.
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I aspire only to silence.
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Every morning I wake up and thank God.
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All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can't win because I'm a progressive... because I'm a woman... even because I'm a lesbian.
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My desire to be an artist really came out of being broke and unemployed and incapable of holding a job down. That's what it was driven by for sure.
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The ball whizzes past like a bumblebee and the Indians are in the sea.
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I hate to witness animals in captivity - or see circus elephants paraded down the streets. When animals are caged, it's a loss of what they are.
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No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce.
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I would love to play 'Funny Girl' or 'Evita,' but I idolize the women who have played those parts. I don't know if there needs to be another version of those shows.
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I approve of anyone wearing what the establishment says you must not wear.
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There is a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.
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I'm the most optimistic guy about VR out there. I have crazy visions of what we'll be doing in the future.
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I don't like to pretend I was guided in any way by the supernatural world, but the more you talk about that, the easier it is to dismiss those notions.
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I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
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As a boy, I had an uncle, T. G. Bond, who lived near Moreton Hampstead and who was passionately devoted to Dartmoor. He inspired me with the same love.
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I consider everybody who takes themselves seriously to be a little bit off. And Silicon Valley seems to be the most effusive about how important their contributions are to society.
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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The first song I wrote was called 'Here I Go Falling In Love' I wrote it in the sixth grade.
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Both my parents had heart problems: my mother had type 2 diabetes, and my father had a stroke.
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When television came along, I'd already done more than 10 years of radio work and I thought everyone would want me. I sat around waiting for the phone to ring - and it didn't.
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You know that your happiness and suffering depend on the happiness and suffering of others. That insight helps you not to do wrong things that will bring suffering to yourself and to other people.
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Among living artists, George Condo may be the most embraced by the powers that be.
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I have a pretty good sense of direction. And if I get lost, I just act like I know where I'm going.
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My route so far through life hasn't been particularly logical, or even thought out.
