Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick MacManus) Quotes
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Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.
Warren Buffett -
I don't believe in writer's block.
Gabrielle Zevin -
If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don't worry about it, that's the way we learn.
Earl Warren -
When the 'New York Times' revealed the warrantless surveillance of voice calls, in December 2005, the telephone companies got nervous.
Barton Gellman -
My goal? To test out every diet and exercise regimen on planet earth and figure out which work best. I sweated, I cooked, I learned to pole dance. In the end, I lost weight, lowered my cholesterol and doubled my energy level. I feel better than I ever have.
A. J. Jacobs -
There was a lot of hype about social media in President Obama's first campaign. It was important, but it wasn't as important as I think people let on.
Gavin Newsom
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Ukraine must once again be revered and respected by its citizens as well as the East and the West.
Viktor Yushchenko -
It costs a great deal of money to do a musical, and the more money involved, the more big business influences the artform.
Hal Price -
There are no major cities I haven't been in - at least once. I'd be just as happy not to go out of town for a couple of months and play with toys.
F. Lee Bailey -
My mom is super fabulous, and I remember her telling me at 13, 'You can start wearing makeup now.' And the funny thing is, I didn't take her up on it!
Samira Wiley -
There is a lot of stuff I like. I love backpacking. I love going to an island where I can just sit on the beach and read or scuba dive and sail. I do a lot of that. I still go backpacking around Europe in the summers and staying in hostels. I love that.
Sam Altman -
I wouldn't have made it past the first round of American Idol auditions. It was months before our first song was recorded. The guys were like, 'Just seeng!' And I was like, 'I don't know how to seeng! Can't I just play the triangle?'
Malin Akerman
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I was never really good in school.
A. J. Buckley -
I think if I'd ever had any skeletons in the closet, they'd have been out a long time ago.
Gary Lineker -
The best part about poker is there's no down side.
Samantha Bee -
My wife and I love to read. We're going to have to move out to make room for the books! And we have our dogs.
Gale Gordon -
Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.
Yogi Berra -
I'm not really a girl who likes to go out to lunch or cocktails or store openings.
Vera Wang
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Democracy appears to be safer and less liable to revolution than oligarchy. For in oligarchies there is the double danger of the oligarchs falling out among themselves and also with the people; but in democracies there is only the danger of a quarrel with the oligarchs. No dissension worth mentioning arises among the people themselves. And we may further remark that a government which is composed of the middle class more nearly approximates to democracy than to oligarchy, and is the safest of the imperfect forms of government.
Aristotle -
It's going to be big dollars and it should be big dollars.
Eliot Spitzer -
I didn't have a thing to do with picking a coach, and didn't want to. But I didn't think they'd pick one I didn't like.
Bear Bryant -
The formula for a hit is saying what people want to hear.
Fat Joe -
Some people haven't got a life, I suppose. They want to be on the road all the time.
John Roy Anderson Yes -
When in doubt, play track 4 - it is usually the one you want.
Elvis Costello