Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick MacManus) Quotes
You think you're alone until you realize you're in it. Now fear is here to stay, love is here for a visit.
Quotes to Explore
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God is like the sun. When the sun shines, it shines for everyone. God is for everyone.
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Declaring the San Gabriel Mountains a national monument will make this natural wonder more accessible. It will welcome people from all walks of life and maintain the mountains' wild character at the same time.
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I'm an artist at heart.
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Brands like Starbucks came along and talked about their brand as itself being a community, the idea that Starbucks is what they like to call a 'third place,' which is not their idea; it's the idea of basic citizenry needing a place that is not work, that is not home, where citizens gather.
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I want people to remember me as a full on entertainer and a good person.
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Design needs a new relationship with the world, one that is more focused on our planet's needs.
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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.
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To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'
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The more work I do and the more I put myself out there publicity-wise, it's gonna be less and less chances of me being able to just walk around without being noticed.
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If you're going to sing on stage, wear lip stain.
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I was a guinea pig for some hoodlums who thought they could hurt me and frighten me and keep other Negro entertainers from the South.
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It was Nate Monaster who encouraged me to be a writer.
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The question of modernization is central to disturbances in the Middle East and in Africa. Everyone is after modernization, no matter where they come from. But you have to be careful about it, and more importantly, you have to have sense about it.
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I would love to rent a little cottage or cabin in Colorado and learn to ski or snowboard. And on the warmer side, I also want to rent a house in Hawaii and learn to surf!
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I am the same on camera as I am off. I can't imagine being any other way.
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I know I can act. There aren't too many other jobs I know how to do.
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It is not productive to see things in simple black and white, and talk in either anti-nuclear or pro-nuclear terms.
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I make all my decisions on intuition.
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It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.
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I think it's a tough transition. It's easy to go from comedian to rapper, but to go from rapper to comedian is tougher.
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I think that each woman, whatever age, needs to recognize something good in her body. Someone has beautiful legs, someone has beautiful hair, someone else has beautiful decolletage or a beautiful waist or beautiful hands. Everyone has something great.
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What happens is that, you know, on Mondays, at least in the Senate, you know, Monday night we'd have what you'd call a bed-check vote. Just to get, you know, the machinery of the Senate up and running so they can start the committee process; on Tuesday morning, things go. By Thursday, you know, jet fumes, the smell of jet fumes.
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Once you start to try and calculate why you were cast and why you weren't, you get in trouble.
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You think you're alone until you realize you're in it. Now fear is here to stay, love is here for a visit.
