Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick MacManus) Quotes

I mistrust these people in music industry who can be everybody. This is where technology dictates to them. I mistrust that, that in somehow the chips capture the soul of a player, that's patent nonsense.

Elvis Costello

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• I love morning television because it's the most vulnerable time of day, when you are at your rawest, and if I have the ability to make viewers smile, that's a gift from God.

  

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• I'm a regular person. I know a lot of people love being famous. I don't like it. I'm just chillin'. YouknowwhatI'msayin'?

  

  Wale
  • Know
  • Like
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• It sounds kind of stupid, but I've never not wanted to be a musician. It's been inside me since I was little so I don't know what else I would do.

  

  Zola Jesus
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• If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.

  

  Ted Shackelford
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• Medicine, anything academic, is a very Persian Iranian route to take in life, in one's career.

  

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• My father was a construction worker most of his life. My mother, when she came from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, to the United States, never had a chance to go to college either and became a clerical worker. But they did nothing but build this country.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Life
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• For me, with music, there is no half-stepping. This is my calling.

  

  Yolandi Visser
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  • Me
  • Calling

• I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.

  

  Barbara Mertz
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Habit

• I miss my horse. He's in Los Angeles.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • Horse
  • Miss
  • Los Angeles

• The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Perfection

• The only show my mother could afford to take me to when I was growing up was 'Cats', for my birthday.

  

  Tammy Blanchard
  • Up
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  • Growing

• The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't - it just keeps you from enjoying it.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • You
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• I think it's not really difficult to write about love. We've been saying the same thing over and over for so many years. But it depends on how honest it is and how good you make it feel. You can say 'I love you' in a trillion ways, and it can always sound different or feel different.

  

  Babyface
  • Good
  • Different
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• I have been given the authority over you, and I am not the best of you. If I do well, help me; and if I do wrong, set me right. Sincere regard for truth.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Truth
  • Right
  • Wrong

• Netweaver was going to be the number one middleware player in the world. We heard about Netweaver day and night. Oracle became number one. No one talks about Netweaver.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • World
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• Nothing wrong with making money.

  

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• I think it is important to be a friend to your kids. But it is also equally important to set boundaries. My mother was a strong influence, and so was my dad. My mom was my friend whom I couldn't cross.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
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• The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Think
  • Man
  • Government

• I was a bed wetter till very late. My mom used to hang my sheets out the window to dry, and I'd have to run home from school in order to beat the other kids to my house so they wouldn't see them.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • School
  • Home
  • Kids

• My family are massive fans of 'I'm A Celeb,' so that would be pretty cool. There's so many areas where you can go in and enjoy, but I just like meeting new people.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • People
  • Family
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• I'm all for guys being butch and guys being men. I identify with that and appreciate that. But if I'm going to stab my gay brother in the back who isn't butch and who maybe acts a little bit more effeminate, what good is that?

  

  Kyan Douglas
  • Good
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• 'I did used to like trampolining, but I’m probably past it, I think. You need to have a really strong pelvic floor to be good at trampolining, and I’ve had three children.'

  

  Tamsin Greig
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  • Children
  • Past

• I just think Trump's character and some of his values makes him unfit to lead. For someone like him to be president and in charge of our troops? It's scary, to be honest.

  

  Jaylen Brown
  • Character
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• I mistrust these people in music industry who can be everybody. This is where technology dictates to them. I mistrust that, that in somehow the chips capture the soul of a player, that's patent nonsense.

  

  Elvis Costello
  • People
  • Soul
  • Technology