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Jarvis Cocker Quotes

You get to a certain age and you just want to prove that you can still rock - that you've still got it.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Age You Want Rock Prove Get

Even to build a vote bank, you need to tackle the problems people face. Rural jobs that stop migration to cities, road networks for better connectivity, and a sense of security get people to vote for you.

People Road Problems Face Better

As far as I can see, the best writers in the last two hundred years have been Whitman, Rilke, Proust, Kafka. Their best works: 'Leaves of Grass - 1855;' 'Duino Elegies;' 'The Captive & The Fugitive;' 'The Castle.'

Best I Can Grass Two Years See

You don't think, when you start a company as the founding CEO, that if your venture actually works, you end up with three jobs: founder, CEO, and chair of the board. The first eight years at Bonobos, I have learned a lot about the tension between the first two. It didn't even occur to me that I had the third job until much later.

Job Me Start Think End Chair

For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.

John Maynard Keynes

Fair Years Pretend Little Must Gods

I realise that there's something about fantasy, whether it's written by the Grimm Brothers or J. K. Rowling or Thorne or J. M. Barrie, that it gets closer to the human experience than realism every could.

Experience Fantasy Human Something

On my tombstone it will say: 'I tried everything - nothing was easy.'

Easy Say Nothing Will Everything

People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue.

Food People Environmental Slow Issue

One of the benefits of doing low-budget movies is you don't have to release them wide to recoup. You can release it in a smaller way, make your money back, and keep going.

Money Keep Going Doing You Back Way

There was an interesting article in Los Angeles Magazine about women directors. A woman director makes one bad independent film and her career is over. Guys tend to get an opportunity to learn from their mistakes.

Women Opportunity Woman Mistakes Bad

I'm from a generation of women that shattered the glass ceiling. We didn't wait for doors to open. The lesson I learned is that you need to open some doors for yourself in pursuit of career advancement.

Denise Morrison

Women Yourself Wait Generation Doors

It's easy in this world, in this business, to get caught up and get jealous of people.

Business People World Jealous Easy

Companions are we, enlivened by a mighty gallop quickly sliding a harsh straw basket of sea foam gathered astride the tide.

Sea Tide Mighty Straw Basket Harsh

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