Jarvis Cocker Quotes
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I know about lots of things that have nothing to do with being Asian, that you would never guess from looking at me. I know all about musical theater. I could go on 'Jeopardy!' and knock off the whole Broadway show tunes category. Also the whole Bible stories category.
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Information of fundamental importance to the general problem of atomic structure has resulted from systematic studies of the cosmic radiation carried out by the Wilson cloud-chamber method.
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The longer I live the more convinced I become that one of the greatest honors we can confer on other people is to see them as they are, to recognize not only that they exist, but that they exist in specific ways and have specific realities.
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You see what happens in college and high school games today - a three-point shot or a dunk. I think that's the reason that you see a lot of that in the pros today.
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Maybe it will be a great thing when the Baby Boomers finally die out. In real life, it's not a matter of the good guys or the bad guys. Rather, it's big numbers and small numbers that do the counting.
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The Backstreet Boys were so ten years ago. Whatever.
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I'm not going to be lectured by Nathan Deal, who is a former Clinton Democrat. I will stack up my conservative credentials against his any day of the week.
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I don't make resolutions, because resolutions seem so ephemeral and transient to go away.
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This result was confirmed by different researchers using various experimental arrangements.
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Swing dance has been a part of my life since I was born.
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Competition is a powerful and essential part of this nation's economy and vital to cutting government costs.
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For those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store.
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You can't reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty.
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I sang in church, but growing up in the neighborhood, music was more of an expression of relief or entertainment.
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We have held forums here at the White House on workplace flexibility, and the first major bill signed into law by President Obama was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. Lilly was here a few weeks ago because we were trying very hard to push paycheck fairness through the Congress. Unfortunately, we fell two votes short.
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Let us unite on the safe and sure ground of fact and experiment, and we can never err; yet better, we can never differ.
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Indian weddings are elaborate. As a culture, we like to celebrate everything... Our weddings go on for sometimes a week, 10 days.
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We were all hit with sticker shock: $87 billion is a huge number.
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The imagination is too often regarded merely as an indefinite, untraceable, indescribable something that does nothing but create fiction.
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I have to remind myself constantly that people actually want to hear the music I've made; that's hard for me to digest. I think a live audience is the only tangible evidence you can have that your work is making an impact. It's really humbling.
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Maybe this is why so many serial killers work in pairs. It's nice not to feel alone in a world full of victims or enemies.
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Unless we can join forces and recognize each other's humanity, how can we do business together, let alone make progress on the increasingly complex and difficult problems in society?
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The For-itself, in fact, is nothing but the pure nihilation of the In-itself; it is like a hole of being at the heart of Being.
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I'm always nervous when I perform anyway.
