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.
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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'?
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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.
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If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.
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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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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
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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.
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People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
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For me, with music, there is no half-stepping. This is my calling.
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I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.
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I miss my horse. He's in Los Angeles.
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The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.
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America is a country that prides itself on being able to identify a 'straight shooter' or 'the genuine article' when it comes to our leaders. As a nation, we can 'feel it in our gut' when someone is giving us a bum steer.
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The only show my mother could afford to take me to when I was growing up was 'Cats', for my birthday.
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The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't - it just keeps you from enjoying it.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The best way to learn a language may be an episode of jail in a foreign country.
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If the nature of the work is properly appreciated and applied, it will stand in the same relation to the higher faculties as food is to the physical body.
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Talent is being able to please people.
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Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.
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I am not trying to make an image; I am an actor trying to sell movies.
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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.
