Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick MacManus) Quotes
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You realise that having a number one record and being loved and adored isn't the most important thing in the world. But at the same time, I don't have a problem with it. What I'm trying to say is, I'm not a reluctant pop star.
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
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I love women more than anything.
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Creativity can only be anarchic, capitalist, Darwinian.
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George loves the T Rex because it's the noisiest and the scariest.
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Now, I love playing moms who can't hide their paranoia.
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Most people looking for dinosaurs are looking for beautiful skeletons.
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I grew up in such a melting pot. There's more ethnicities in Queens than there is in any place on the planet. So you grow up knowing things about other cultures.
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When I was 5 years old, my mother read me 'Gone With The Wind' at night, before I went to bed. I remember her reading almost all year.
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You have the power to remind us all that human dignity is not just a universal aspiration, but a human right.
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Years from now, people will find our acceptance of the HIV theory of AIDS as silly as we find those who excommunicated Galileo.
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The earliest religious feeling MacAllister could recall was being annoyed at Adam, because it was his fault that girls subsequently had to wear clothes.
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To successfully respond to the myriad of changes that shake the world, transformation into a new style of management is required. The route to take is what I call profound knowledge - knowledge for leadership of transformation.
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'WTF is MDNA?
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I'm finding that I tend to be one of those people who gets into very committed, long-term relationships, and then I really focus on that relationship and not so much myself.
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The theory in great families was 'why work if you don't have to.' Being a public figure was reserved for movie stars.
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When a father of a daughter dies, you elevate them. And you sort of deify them.
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The first Latin music that blew my mind was bumba, which was a Puerto Rican beat.
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I use the rules to frustrate the law. But I didn't set up the ground rules.
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Governments are mandated by international law to protect people from genocide.
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Marriage is the only actual bondage known to our law. There remain no legal slaves, except the mistress of every house.
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There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.
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Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
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The long arm of the law slides up the outskirts of town.
