Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick MacManus) Quotes
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I think America has a brilliant future.
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Please know that being 80 is not a scary thing. When you're 80, your life is much freer.
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No matter what his crimes were, Alton Sterling did not deserve to be executed for them. Look, guys, the punishment for resisting arrest shouldn't be death. The punishment for selling bootleg CDs shouldn't be death. The punishment for having a gun in an open-carry state shouldn't be death. The punishment for being a black man shouldn't be death.
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I love the science-fiction genre because there's always so many endless possibilities! It's a limitless genre and can be fun playing around with otherworldly ideas.
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People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.
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Let me be the first to say I can't remember ever having a conversation about the definition of consent when I was a kid. I knew that 'no' meant 'no,' but that's it.
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Being black, Latino, or Asian is not a genre. Romantic comedies, thrillers, action - those are genres. I think there's a lot of people who want to have the conversation. I don't think people are afraid of it, I just think it's the time to have that conversation. Race is not a genre.
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During the season especially, we take a lot of swings, we play a lot of games, we swing a lot in games, batting practice, all that, so to maintain your shoulder the strongest is one of the key points that we focused on in the offseason.
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The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake - you can't learn anything from being perfect.
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I wish - I wish the peace and good for the Syrian citizen and the Syrian regime.
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I think vestigially there's a synesthete in me, but not like a real one who immediately knows what colour Wednesday is.
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The bee collects honey from flowers in such a way as to do the least damage or destruction to them, and he leaves them whole, undamaged and fresh, just as he found them.
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Athletes at all ages are bigger and stronger than ever before. And they are being encouraged - sometimes even incentivized, as we recently learned was the case on at least one National Football League team - to play to injure.
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If you spend a week at a casino you will very easily see that people have a certain way of behaving in a casino.
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When you think of bike couriers, you think of hyper speed. They get paid by how fast they can drop stuff off. The faster you go, the more chances you take. And the more chances you take, the greater the war between cyclists and cars.
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The Church does not pretend to be scientists. It teaches based upon what science tells it.
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I get a feeling about where a teammate is going to be. A lot of times, I can turn and pass without even looking.
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I certainly felt like my life had been enriched and had also changed forever when I took 'In A World...' to Sundance.
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I think I was a Japanese schoolgirl in another life. That's how much I love Hello Kitty.
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The death penalty in the U.S. has become a political tool - and it should never be that.
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Inflation is an increase in the quantity of money without a corresponding increase in the demand for money, i.e., for cash holdings.
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When you put money directly to a problem, it makes a good headline. It makes a good campaign slogan. You get to claim that you've engaged in these activities within an election cycle. But certain investments take longer than an election cycle.
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When I was diagnosed I didn't know how epidemic cancer was. You find out that everybody you know is touched by this disease.
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There's no money back guarantee on future happiness.
