Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick MacManus) Quotes
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Quotes to Explore
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I can be very ordinary looking.
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To love is to believe, to hope, to know; Tis an essay, a taste of Heaven below!
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Israel demonstrated real hooliganism during the course of the recent operation, which I demanded.
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Politics are beautiful. They enable a community to live collectively with one another. It's not about stabbing each other in the back it's about enabling people to reach their dreams and pursue happiness.
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We didn't know we'd end up here when we left.
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Nothing makes you look older than attempting to look young. You can fool anyone, apart from the young. The worst are the lip operations. There are people who have it done and I don't recognise them afterwards. They look like they flew through the windscreen during a car accident and were patched up badly afterwards.
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Fiat justitia et ruant coeli. Let justice be done, though the heavens may fall. See Ferdinand I 320:1.
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These dilemmas present perhaps the most enduring conundrum of human history: can people derive their identity primarily by positive association or does life's meaning also require negative comparison to others?
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I think old school TV shows helped in raising your kids and helped in the way things should be done. Now you just see kids disrespecting their parents, you see kids cursing and all kind of things that shouldn't be done.
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There has to be some decorum left in politics and in American journalism as well. Our husbands are the candidates.
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Happiness is only the cart; love is the horse.
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What I always hoped for out of the psychedelic voyaging was to bring back something. I always felt, and still feel, that that is the attitude with which you should go into these things.
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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
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The third-down sacks are critical ones, 'cause that's getting off the field.
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I've had little success in intellectual circles. I'm not talked about in the 'New York Review of Books,' and I was never part of the Stravinsky 'inner circle.'
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The complete self-absorption, and childish indulgence and disregard, and having to feel as though everything you're doing is so people can live vicariously through you, so you have to pursue more and more unpleasant pastimes in order to satisfy the armchair people. That's a kind of scary existence.
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But God, who is the beginning of all things, is not to be regarded as a composite being, lest perchance there should be found to exist elements prior to the beginning itself, out of which everything is composed, whatever that be which is called composite.
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I have stage fright every single concert I've ever done. I have at least four or five minutes of it. It's absolute living hell.
