Jarvis Cocker Quotes
I used to look at older people who bothered to still attend nightclubs and couldn’t help but wonder why. Didn’t they realize how foolish they looked? Of course, now that I’m one of those people myself, I have decided that such rules don’t apply to me.
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I love rock n' rollers.
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Watching 'Girls' has just given me renewed courage.
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Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
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The central drama of our age is how the Western nations and the Asian peoples are to find a tolerable basis of co-existence.
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I used to look at older people who bothered to still attend nightclubs and couldn’t help but wonder why. Didn’t they realize how foolish they looked? Of course, now that I’m one of those people myself, I have decided that such rules don’t apply to me.
