Jarvis Cocker Quotes

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• To the poet fated to be a poet, self-expression is as natural and as involuntary as breathing is to us ordinary mortals.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Natural
  • U.S.
  • Breathing

• I think I was lucky I got into art college. That's what saved me.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Think
  • Me
  • College

• The biggest issue that we have to contend with is campaign finance reform.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Reform
  • Finance
  • Biggest

• The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Time
  • World
  • True

• I get recognized so much. It happens mostly when I'm in Starbucks.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Happens
  • Mostly
  • Starbucks

• Years ago the public used to hound me but now I can go shopping in peace.

  

  Irene Dunne
  • Me
  • Peace
  • Public

• I'm a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn't as insidious as American nationalism, though. It's good natured. It's all about maple syrup, not war.

  

  Feist
  • Good
  • American
  • War

• Ever since I was a child, I would start crying seeing anyone in pain.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Pain
  • Child
  • Start

• In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the sense of sight upon itself, but even our mind, which contemplates intently another's sin, is slow in the recognition of its own defects.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Mind
  • Truth
  • Eye

• In my situation, every time I write a sentence, I'm thinking not only of the people I ended up in college with but my siblings, my family, my school friends, the people from my neighborhood. I've come to realize that this is an advantage, really: it keeps you on your toes.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Here's how I work: It's 2013, and most marketers are operating like it's 2009. I'm always trying to market like it's 2015, but not like it's 2020. A lot of my contemporaries who understand where the world is going, go too far out, and aren't practical. I have always prided myself on being visionary, with a heavy practicality.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • World
  • Work
  • Trying

• We will win an election when all the seats in the House and Senate and the chair behind the desk in the Oval Office and the whole bench of the Supreme Court are filled with people who wish they weren't there.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • House
  • Wish

• Our planet's lands and oceans are already stretched to meet the demands of 7 billion people. The human population continues to grow. The search for sustainable solutions is an economic and a moral imperative if we are to create the future we want.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • People
  • Future
  • Moral

• I can't just say one time of the year I'm going to do something different. I have to commit to a lifestyle behavioral change and just try to be a little bit better today than I was yesterday.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Time
  • Different
  • Today

• My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.

  

  Harley Viera-Newton
  • Family
  • Learning
  • Grandmother

• I've been a big astrophysics nut since I was 12. I have always had a real soft spot for the bizarreness of quantum mechanics. But I gave up on being a scientist in high school - I'm just not that good at math.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Up
  • Good
  • Real

• Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.

  

  W. Eugene Smith
  • Small
  • Best
  • Photography

• Im not your biggest girly girl.

  

  Maggie Siff
  • Girl
  • Girly
  • Biggest

• I always appreciated my dad coming outside and playing with us - or my mom - and being a part of the game we were playing or refereeing it or just being outside. That was fun for us, and it was very encouraging.

  

  Andrew Luck
  • Fun
  • Game
  • Dad

• I was able to grow up and do silly things and have a life with only a small amount of public scrutiny.

  

  Keisha Castle-Hughes
  • Life
  • Up
  • Small

• I have no interest in increasing the size of government. I just want to make sure we have got a smart government that is regulating, for example, the financial institutions smartly, so I don't have to engage in any kind of bank bailouts.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Government
  • Smart
  • Financial

• Better rooms better furniture, better objects d'art can only be created for a society interested in living - not existing.

  

  Van Day Truex
  • Art
  • Society

• Young men make wars, and the virtues of war are the virtues of young men: courage, and hope for the future. Then old men make the peace, and the vices of peace are the vices of old men: mistrust and caution.

  

  Alec Guinness
  • Men
  • War
  • Hope

• I am proud, and more than a little excited, to be asked to work with Faber in an editorial capacity. It is my dearest hope that we will produce some fantastic books together.

  

  Jarvis Cocker Pulp
  • Work
  • Together
  • Hope