Jarvis Cocker Quotes
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When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said - and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded - 'It's like hair color. It's nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It's not a subject.' This was a very healthy attitude.
Karl Lagerfeld -
Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
D. H. Lawrence -
There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone.
M. Night Shyamalan -
I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe you push a little further in the first show.
D. B. Sweeney -
The country needs more than one-party dominance, as much as I believe the Democratic Party is the party for the middle class... We need to have a marketplace of ideas.
Nancy Pelosi -
I was into basketball, but then once I found contact sports, it was over. I never played basketball again in my life.
Daniel Cormier
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It's still going on. I guess it will be until Redmond quits, dies or is jailed.
Farrah Fawcett -
It's very likely that I will finish my career as Swiss national coach.
Ottmar Hitzfeld -
'Bruce Lee' didn't work, and there were apprehensions about what the fans might say. People might have commented that Charan could have waited for some time before selecting me again. But that's what makes it a real achievement to me. People want to work with me because of the comfort level; nobody would work with you again otherwise.
Rakul Preet Singh -
Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness.
Mahatma Gandhi -
There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.
Walt Disney -
I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.
R. Kelly
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The two most important things to do for self-defense are not to take a martial arts class or get a gun, but to think like the opposition and know where you're most at risk.
Barry Eisler -
It was weird - writing is a stupid thing to do. I come up here in the morning to a pleasant room in the roof of my house and imagine I'm a black South American football superstar; then I have to imagine I'm a female pop celebrity who's pregnant. It's a completely mad way to spend your time.
Mal Peet -
Hemingway was a jerk.
Harold Robbins -
Just because I don't show six-pack abs doesn't mean that I don't have them.
Abhishek Bachchan -
The glory is being happy. The glory is not winning here or winning there. The glory is enjoying practicing, enjoy every day, enjoying to work hard, trying to be a better player than before.
Rafael Nadal -
I can't tell you how many times I've gone to present at the Golden Globes, come home, whipped the dress off and read to my daughter wearing gazillion-dollar earrings. That's how it goes in my house, and I wouldn't have it any other way.
Kate Beckinsale
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Nobody wants to retire from football.
LaDainian Tomlinson -
People ask me to describe myself, but it's a very personal thing. You don't feel comfortable.
Damon Hill -
All comparisons between America's current place in the world and anything legitimately called an empire in the past reveal ignorance and confusion about any reasonable meaning of the concept empire, especially the comparison with the Roman Empire.
Donald Kagan -
I decided very early on that it took too much of my energy to pretend to be someone else. People will make up their minds about me whatever I do or say, but at least I know I am being true to myself.
Drew Barrymore -
My wife is Asian. She's Filipino. Alright, well, okay, so that explains it. Now you know why you see me at all those Filipino events. I'm not there picking up pussy, I'm dropping some off.
Dave Chappelle -
Its OK to grow up, just as long as you don't grow old. Face it you are young.
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