Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick MacManus) Quotes

Don't try to touch my heart, it's darker than you think. And don't try to read my mind, because it's full of disappearing ink.

Elvis Costello

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• Whenever you do a new interpretation of a great, previous text of any kind, you always look for some kind of immediate significance right now.

  

  Bartlett Sher
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• The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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• None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
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• Kids are meant to believe that their stepping stone to massive money is 'The X Factor.' Luck is great, but most of life is hard work. We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
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• You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget.

  

  Carl Sandburg
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• But I started it when I was going through a transitional time in my life. At the end of it, it really sort of symbolized it. I had made room to change, and room to grow. I recorded it in a little room.

  

  Katey Sagal
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• I don't like it when a woman looks like a fashion victim.

  

  Ralph Lauren
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• Yes, I'm obsessed with health, which has been an interesting journey. I went down the raw-food diet route, but got ill. It was really hard, especially in Britain in winter, trying to survive on raw carrots. I became so ill and anemic, so I stopped that and became a vitamin junkie. I just ate lots of vegetables, exercised and breathed.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Trying
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• An employee who's one of hundreds, rather than one of a few, is unlikely to feel personally responsible for helping the organization adapt and change.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Change
  • Organization
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• Once humans traded their hunter-gatherer existences for more settled communities, we began a quest to make our lives better and more comfortable, but we've also been sucking precious finite resources from our environment ever since.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Environment
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• I can't do any competitive sport myself!

  

  Samantha Cameron
  • Myself
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• I think the technology will get bigger and the price of Bitcoin will go up, so I'm speculating to increase my purchasing power. But I don't intend to sell the Bitcoin. I intend to hold it until there's a day where I can just use Bitcoin completely.

  

  Olaf Carlson-Wee
  • Up
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• I believe all universities should at least offer courses in politics and policy implementation.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
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• I used to go down every year for the remembrance of Elvis' birthday. Memphis State College invited me to sit in the auditorium and speak to the people for one of those Elvis days.

  

  Otis Blackwell
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• I think people who have good parents come into the world with a strength, yes, and an advantage.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
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• If everything is the same, nothing is special.

  

  Lady Starlight
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• I don't think I have the ability or patience to teach badminton to others.

  

  Saina Nehwal
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• My cousin once told me, 'You're tall, you're handsome - and you're gonna have to apologize for it the rest of your life.' He imparted that information to me.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Life
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• I felt uneasy, but sometimes, like I said before, I believed in Col. North and there was a very solid and very valid reason that he must have been doing this.

  

  Fawn Hall
  • Sometimes
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• In Chinese, there are an impressive number of ways to describe saying nothing at all.

  

  Evan Osnos
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• I don't think there is such a thing as a German movie star. There are respected actors, but we are not publicized like TV people.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
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• Although we resolutely supported the armed struggle against Batista's tyranny, we were, on principle, opposed to any terrorist action that could cause the death of innocent people.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • People
  • Death
  • Action

• I can hang out with all my boyfriend's friends. I know how to roll with the guys.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Friends
  • Know
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• Don't try to touch my heart, it's darker than you think. And don't try to read my mind, because it's full of disappearing ink.

  

  Elvis Costello
  • Think
  • My Heart
  • My Mind