Jarvis Cocker Quotes
I always thought that I might retire from any form of sexuality by the age of 40 and just become a dignified older person.
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Nearly all government advice on terrorism sacrifices practical particulars for an unalarming tone. The usual guidance is to maintain a three-day supply of food and water along with a radio, flashlight, batteries and first-aid kit.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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U.S. intelligence services routinely use collection methods against foreigners that foreseeably - with certainty - ingest high volumes of U.S. communications as well.
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When I am cast in a movie where I feel that the woman's part is more interesting, I usually start thinking about Spencer Tracy and Fred Astaire. They seem to be the most clear actors when working with women.
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There's never really been a real hood Christmas movie.
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Surely it is time to examine into the meaning of words and the nature of things, and to arrive at simple facts, not received upon the dictum of learned authorities, but upon attentive personal observation of what is passing around us.
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One of the lessons learned during the Vietnam War was that the depiction of wounded soldiers, of coffins stacked higher than their living guards, had a negative effect on the viewing public. The military in Iraq specifically banned the photographing of wounded soldiers and coffins, thus sanitizing this terrible and bloody conflict.
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Every time I go to Comic-Con, I'm jacked. I want to dress up and walk the floor and answer questions, because I'm excited about it. It's like making new friends.
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All rationalism tends to minimalise the value and the importance of life and to decrease the sum total of human happiness.
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I like dogs, I just don't choose to spend time with them.
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Utahns deserve well thought out policy and plans.
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I've always dreamed of having a large family.
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In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here is the center of his or her own story. And our job as people and as characters is to find our own motivations and desires, to overcome conflicts and obstacles toward defining ourselves so that we grow and change.
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You can find dozens of books about people taking the Trans-Siberian Railroad. I knew I had to do something different to cross Siberia. To drive and to talk with people along the way, that was how I wrote my book 'Great Plains'. I drove and camped in Siberia, but did not have a real program.
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My mother was the president of the PTA at every school I attended.
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I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.
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This whole beauty thing is something I've never comprehended.
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We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
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I was born in Coney Island. I like to think I fell out of the womb onto the fun park's giant Parachute Jump while eating a Nathan's hot dog.
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Never forget that children are at the heart of everything we do. Respect them, listen to them, talk to them as equals, and care about them.
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The road can get rocky, but you have to find ways to work through it.
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At the end of the day, don't forget that you're a person, don't forget you're a mother, don't forget you're a wife, don't forget you're a daughter.
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I didn't have traditional stage fright. If there was 500 people in the audience or three people in the audience, it didn't really make a difference. What made a difference was the conductor. Everything that I was scared about as a drummer was him.
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I always thought that I might retire from any form of sexuality by the age of 40 and just become a dignified older person.
