Jarvis Cocker Quotes
If you wanted to be a creative person and you are confronted with the sum product of mankind's creativity up to this moment in history, that's pretty daunting, like, "Where can I fit my voice in amongst all that?"
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When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
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I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.
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There were a lot of times people would do my makeup, and it would be awful, and I would be orange. Nothing matched. So then you learn how to do your own makeup. I watched a lot of YouTube videos when I was little and taught myself.
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The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.
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No matter what a woman looks like, if she's confident, she's sexy.
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I'm always nervous when I start a new picture.
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I've got to be honest, there's no pleasure when you're working.
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I think the media world is adjusting to the digital age.
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From that time on, I always had the studios on my neck.
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I have great admiration for the way the Americans do business. They drive a hard bargain, but once they do it, they stick to their contracts.
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I would argue that Asean has been instrumental in driving both economic growth and political development, and that there can be no clearer example than its relations with Myanmar.
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Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.
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Vinyl is the real deal. I've always felt like, until you buy the vinyl record, you don't really own the album. And it's not just me or a little pet thing or some kind of retro romantic thing from the past. It is still alive.
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I've always wanted to be a professional golfer and I'm glad that came true.
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Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.
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Stardom is only a by-product of acting. I don't think being a movie star is a good enough reason for existing.
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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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In North Korea, grass is a vegetable eaten by the people, and they've got nuclear weapons and intercontinental ballistic missiles. So, something more stringent than what's been done to North Korea is going to have to work; otherwise, a military strike is the only option.
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Liberals have been driven to the desperate expedient of attributing . . .social pathology in today's ghettos to 'a legacy of slavery' even though black children grew up with two parents more often under slavery than today.
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Don't write the book you think publishers want to commission. Plenty of other writers will be doing the same thing.
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I always knew that I was going to be famous. I honest to God don't know how else to describe it. I used to lie in bed and wonder, 'Am I going to be a local TV person? Am I going to a motivational speaker?' It wasn't a vision. But as it's kind of happening, you have this buried understanding: 'Of course.'
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Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives not by truth but by make-believe.
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If you wanted to be a creative person and you are confronted with the sum product of mankind's creativity up to this moment in history, that's pretty daunting, like, "Where can I fit my voice in amongst all that?"
