Jarvis Cocker Quotes
France is a republic, and the rules in theory have been made by everyone rather than imposed by a dictatorship or king or whatever. So it's like, we've got to stick to these rules because we made them.
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And I am a conservative. Sometimes conservatives forget we are supposed to conserve, to save, to be efficient. Plus our dependence on other sources of energy is causing our country to not be independent and to really be vulnerable. So this is a security issue.
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I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the same time people are becoming increasingly spiritual. The success of the Da Vinci code - even though it was a great yawn - also showed people's interest in religion.
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Music isn't like news, where it's what happened five minutes ago or even 10 seconds ago that matters. With music, a song from the 1960s could be as relevant to someone today as the latest Ke$ha song.
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I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.
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A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.
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Those were the ideals that drove us to nationalization of the health service.
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I respect the view of a rating agency, but I do not make a budget for the rating agency. I make a budget for the people of India.
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I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.
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I was once an extra in a Bruce Springsteen video where they did a live performance video at Tramps. I forget the name of the song.
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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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Things get so sloppy when you're under the influence.
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I'm learning slowly to not be as much of a control freak. I can't afford to be all the time, but I'm getting better at communicating. Delegating parts of my vision for other people to execute has made it an easier process for knowing what I want, and what people can handle, and what I should probably save for myself.
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I wasn't the most prodigiously talented cricketer in Karnataka, let alone India. Some of my team-mates in my school team could hit the ball cleaner than I do. I had to work through that lack of talent, so to speak, that lack of natural flair. Runs never came easy for me.
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Like I went out to a predominantly black club last night and nobody said anything and I was wishing somebody would so that someone would dance with me.
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Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.
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You need to learn. You need to grow up. You need to step up and know the difference between what you can do and what you can't.
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An individual voice can be heard in a choir that otherwise sings in unison. This is something that is not excused.
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Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.
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Music straightjackets a poem and prevents it from breathing on its own, whereas it liberates a lyric. Poetry doesn't need music; lyrics do.
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A mortgage transaction is very complex, very complicated, and very localized - the rules are not just by state but by county, sometimes even by municipality.
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I have always been small, so defenders have always been taller and tougher than me. So that's difficult for me; they foul me sometimes, but there you are - that's what the rules of the game are for.
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France is a republic, and the rules in theory have been made by everyone rather than imposed by a dictatorship or king or whatever. So it's like, we've got to stick to these rules because we made them.
