Jarvis Cocker Quotes
I guess I'm fairly insistent and maybe consistent. If I decide I'll do something, I generally will.
Quotes to Explore
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The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.
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Let not then any one deceive you, as indeed you are not deceived, inasmuch as you are wholly devoted to God.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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I want the BBC to be a mass market public service broadcaster still funded by the licence fee... and the licence fee is more durable than many people in the commercial sector believe.
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What had disappointed me at the time of the last tour, was to go on a worldwide tour, we were at some incredible places and we couldn't enjoy it, hadn't the time.
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I've been making a diary of the daft things people have said during London Fashion Week, and it does wear a little bit thin, everyone comparing my name to Edie Sedgwick.
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God is everywhere.
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A diet that is high in fat, sugar and salt makes it really hard for a body to function efficiently.
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There is a misconception that young Muslim women are oppressed. That simply isn't the case. I choose to dress modestly and choose to cover my hair with a hijab; not all Muslim women make that choice, and that's okay. We are all different!
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I wash my face day and night. I actually really love Dr. Lancer face wash, and I also love Neutrogena.
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My music, certainly, has never embarrassed me.
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My family is heavily involved in the Marines and close-combat training, and I was raised doing Japanese sword training, so I've always been of the mentality that you have to be able to defend yourself.
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I'm determined not to start dressing like I'm 45 years old now that I'm a mum.
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Could one live on the sense of beauty alone, exempt from the necessity of 'creature comforts,' a sea-voyage would be delightful.
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Think about 'GoodFellas': It could be a textbook on how not to write a screenplay. It leans on voice-over at the beginning, then abandons it for a while, then the character just talks right into the camera at the end. That structure is so unusual that you don't have any sense of what's going to happen next.
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My father always taught by telling stories about his experiences. His lessons were about morality and art and what insects and birds and human beings had in common. He told me what it meant to be a man and to be a Black man. He taught me about love and responsibility, about beauty, and how to make gumbo.
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It's a part of football, you get concussed, you gotta keep on playing. You can't get afraid to go across the middle any more than you were at the beginning.
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When I was very small, maybe 8 years old, we had a big radio that stood on four legs, and it had a cross piece underneath it, and I used to take a pillow and crawl under the radio.
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Believe me, I'm not going to try to get into testing.
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What makes me unique is that I'm normal.
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Movies about space raise those questions of what we're doing here, and that inevitably introduces a spiritual dimension.
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Men have been in the forefront of music for centuries, and they have written glorious music, loved and appreciated by many. In some ways, men are still in the forefront. There is a lot of room for composers of all types of music by both men and women, nowadays.
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I guess I'm fairly insistent and maybe consistent. If I decide I'll do something, I generally will.
