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Jarvis Cocker Quotes

It's weird: The leader of the Conservative Party in England is two years younger than me, and I still don't really feel like a responsible adult.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: english
Birth: September 19, 1963

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Leader Me Weird Feel Party Two

To a Buddhist, contradictions only exist in a mind that has been forced to cultivate them.

Mind Exist Only Cultivate Been Them

India is a curious place that still preserves the past, religions, and its history. No matter how modern India becomes, it is still very much an old country.

History Past Curious India Place

I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.

Soren Kierkegaard

Great Men Me Prove Will Begin

I started to write in 2001. I wrote the books for the fun of it. It was an old idea I had had since the nineties.

Fun Write Old Nineties Started Idea

Even on a personal note, my dressing table downstairs is crowded with things, like a mini landscape. It's a city with buildings and towers and roads. There's a pool and a little park. When I move something around it becomes a different tableau.

Roads City Landscape Buildings Table

We get second chances. We get 19th chances.

Get Chances Second Second Chances

My life changed in 2005 on the day I met my wife, Tamzin. She was in a play called 'Breathing Corpses' with James McAvoy, one of my best mates from drama school. I knew who she was, and I'd fancied her quite a bit when she played Melanie Owen in 'EastEnders.'

Life Best Day Wife School My Life

I was being singled out as the best in the class at this, that and the other, nearly always to do with art. And then I was a very good swimmer from a very early age, and once again the best in the class, and when I was about five or six, I was the best in the school.

Good Age Art Best School Early

I think TARP was the most defining vote since I've been in Congress. It was wrong. You don't nationalize private - it was wrong. It desensitized people to what $700 billion was, which opened the door for a $900 million stimulus, for Obamacare, for all these things. It was wrong. It broke my heart.

Heart People Door Think You Wrong

I don't have a game plan. I never did, and it's too late to have one even if I wanted to.

Game Plan Late Never Too Late Even

There are no wishy-washy astronauts. You don't get up there by being uncaring and blase. And whatever gave you the sense of tenacity and purpose to get that far in life is absolutely reaffirmed and deepened by the experience itself.

Life Experience Purpose Space You

Harry Truman, with what he did in dropping and having the guts to drop the bomb in 1944, saved - saved millions of American lives.

American Drop Guts He Bomb Did

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