Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick MacManus) Quotes
I'm just the mere shadow of my former selfishness. I crave the silhouette of your kiss.
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It's difficult to talk about, you know, my inadequacies, my inability to stay sober when I'm a relatively bright man and I've had a lot of great blessings and a lot of great opportunities.
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I just write what I think is funny. I don't care who watches it.
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We began as restless and radical. Remember the spirit of 1997, but by the end of our time in office we had lost our way.
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My father was a pioneer in so many ways. He was fearless, and I think that I kind of picked that up from him as well.
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Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.
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If we go to Chihuahua we must be considered as prisoners of war?
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Virtual reality is inevitably going to become mainstream - it's only a question of how good it needs to be before the mainstream is willing to use it.
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We need to honor our troops who served and show our support by giving our men and women who served the best health care, the best educational opportunities, and the best job training available. They deserve nothing less.
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I worked in a restaurant and in a nightclub cloakroom.
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And then we watched an amazing number of movies from the late '60s and '70s, which is my favorite time, and we studied their camera movements, their stocks, the way they lit stuff, the colors they used.
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I was going to college to be a doctor.
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If you have a job without any aggravations, you don't have a job.
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I'm very obsessed with not being perfect.
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I love everyone over at Netflix. They're all fantastic and an absolute joy to work with.
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For me, the most indispensable tool for wrapping presents is a wife.
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If one watches whence the notion ‘I’ arises, the mind gets absorbed there; that is tapas. When a mantra is repeated, if one watches whence that mantra sound arises, the mind gets absorbed there; that is tapas.
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A political system seeking to function amongst ignorant, illiterate and barbaric people could have marvelous principles but could only succeed in being ignorant, illiterate and barbaric unless one addressed the people one by one and cured the ignorance, illiteracy and barbarism of each citizen.
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He would not anticipate those counsels which are rather bestowed by circumstances on men, than by men on circumstances.
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I like the word 'indolence'. It makes my laziness seem classy.
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Truth can be sliced a hundred different ways, and it will still remain true, but falsehood shrinks into the shadows, hoping never to be tested, with excuses aplenty.
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If I have to jump six feet to get the same thing that you have to jump two feet for - that's how racism works.
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I saw the sky and sea and sand and the flickering flames of the bonfire through my tears. All at once, it rushed into my head with tremendous speed, and made me feel dizzy. It was beautiful. Everything that happened was shockingly beautiful, enough to make you crazy.
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Because you don't live near a bakery doesn't mean you have to go without cheesecake.
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I'm just the mere shadow of my former selfishness. I crave the silhouette of your kiss.
