Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick MacManus) Quotes
Certain songs have been written years apart, but they have a natural continuity to my mind.
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I am a man of tomorrow, but I also live my past.
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I try and take lots of vitamins and I don't drink. I do smoke, though, I'd be insufferable if I didn't smoke, you'd have to push me off a balcony I'd be so boring.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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The old bastions of the post-communist regime collapsed before my very eyes. The monsters who had kept Ukraine in a criminal state left the stage.
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If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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We can overcome evil with greater good.
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There's always hunger to create because I believe that's what I do. I believe that's what I'm supposed to be doing.
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Receiving the Newcombe Medal for a third year in a row is an amazing honour. The Newcombe Medal is a great occasion for the Australian tennis community to come together and celebrate our sport, recognise people's achievements and contributions to Australian tennis.
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I've always written about heroes and wondered who they are.
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I lived the first five years of my life on a farm in Union City, Michigan, with my mom and grandparents. It was the most magical time of my life.
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I like to travel by myself.
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I am essentially someone who comes from the theatre. I love the theatre. Unfortunately, theatre doesn't pay the bills. Only in theatre abroad, I get a wage.
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A child speaks more sense than an adult half of the time.
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If I'm dancing, or teaching, or having a family I would want to live life to the fullest as possible.
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Your mid-thirties is a good time because you know a fair amount, you have some self-control.
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The only way you can invent tomorrow is if you break out of the enclosure that the school system has provided for you by the exams written by people who are trained in another generation.
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Where opportunities to expand trade and commerce exist, we will lead, and we will partner.
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Worlds and particles, bodies and beings, time and space: All are transient expressions of the Tao.
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They looked at each other. Like they knew everything about each other. Like that. But what exactly did they know, these strangers who were so familiar and intimate? You fought a war with someone, and you knew them. But you only knew the part that was in the war, the part that knew how to fight. The other part, the pedestrian part that lived in the endless calmness of days, you didn’t know that part.
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Have I told you I have cancer? It's a very special kind of cancer. Cancer of the soul.
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Certain songs have been written years apart, but they have a natural continuity to my mind.
