Jarvis Cocker Quotes

You write a song about how you think at the time, and then gradually you drift away from that, and when it's far enough in the past, that's when you think, 'Now I have to write something new.'

Jarvis Cocker

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Perhaps we underestimated the challenges in Afghanistan in the past. That's why we are now strengthening and intensifying our commitment.

Anders Fogh Rasmussen

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I bought myself a rubber brain, familiarized myself with its many parts, listened intently, and read more. In fact, I read obsessively, as my husband has told me repeatedly. He has even suggested that my rapacious reading resembles an addiction.

Siri Hustvedt

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Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.

Michelangelo

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One day, you have a father who's always around, and then the next day, he's gone. I was too young to comprehend that. I actually thought he was going to come back.

Michelle Phan

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It is the most wonderful feeling in the world, knowing you are loved and wanted.

Jayne Mansfield

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In high school, we would do improv. Me and my boy were, like, the stars of the class.

Demetrius Shipp, Jr.

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As a lower-class kid, I was raised to think success would be owning stuff. Having that great job, too. Now I find my parents' dream was wrong. You never really own anything. And you're never really finished as a person.

Chuck Palahniuk

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When I got older, it got harder because when kids get older, they get meaner, so I went through a lot of bullying and people calling me, like, 'zebra' or 'cow,' so it was really hard growing up.

Winnie Harlow

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However people feel about Kanye is their opinion, but I think he's a genius.

Pooch Hall

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We need to expand the idea of choice to be about all the choices we make in our lives: including which country we choose to live in so we can be whole and full women.

Pramila Jayapal

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When I was traded from the Oakland A's to the Atlanta Braves before the 2005 season, a childhood dream was realized. I grew up a Braves fan just a few hours south of Atlanta, and it was hard for me to believe that I was going to actually play for the Atlanta Braves and legendary manager Bobby Cox.

Tim Hudson

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I was brought up to appreciate the here and now, and, knowing this is your only life, to view death as an inevitable and reassuring end.

Richard E. Grant

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