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 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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Where opportunities to expand trade and commerce exist, we will lead, and we will partner.
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There's a lot of life on the planet that needs love, wants love, deserves love, in whatever capacity we are able.
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Whatever mistakes you make this time around, you will live through on your next pass. Every mistake you make, you will live through again and again, forever. So my advice to you is to get it right this time around. Because this time is all you have.
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The story is everything, which means it's our job to tell better stories.
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I would like to have an ample fund to spread the light of Republicanism, but I am willing to undergo the disadvantage to make certain that in the future we shall reduce the power of money in politics for unworthy purposes.
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I just let the songs tell me what to do - they are my guides, and they are the boss. So I am subservient to the songs, and I let them tell me what to do. I don't judge them; I just write whatever comes to me.
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I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
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When I was writing 'Shotgun,' it's one of the first songs that's come to me as an image.
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Certain songs have been written years apart, but they have a natural continuity to my mind.
