Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick MacManus) Quotes
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I had done some TV movies that were great experiences but, no, I wasn't looking to do a series.
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We can only learn to love by loving.
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Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten with her.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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Latin music has many international influences - pop, rock, country, Brazilian sounds, and alternative styles.
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There are regulators at the SEC and elsewhere who are really excited about the potential of the blockchain. They understand you can build a robust financial system - it would solve all your black swan problems. All kinds of mischief and games that are played in the current system become impossible in this system.
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Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!
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Our need for that exterior god that sits up there and judges us... will diminish and eventually disappear.
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Any reaction is better than none.
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Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind.
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There are people who, if they see something in couture that they perceive as ready-to-wear, they're in shock.
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I grew up on a wide range of stuff. OutKast, they been around for over 20 years, and some of the L.A. cats like Defari, Dilated Peoples and Likwit Crew. I was always going to these shows and catching the KRS-One tennis ball, as he would throw those out, EPMD. I could go on and on.
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And also, I think Japan places great value on the lyrics.
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Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress.
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I love my fan base because they never high-five me; they always get really shifty and hide. Adam Sandler's fan base are like, 'Hey!' and high-five him and want to hang out, but mine go behind pillars and get really freaked out.
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English, as a subject, never really got over its upstart nature. It tries to bulk itself up with hopeless jargon and specious complexity, tries to imitate subjects it can never be.
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The real force of Silicon Valley is the mentality, the spirit. There's no reason at all that can't be replicated in Paris.
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Parents need to teach their children principles of respect and acceptance.
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One of the great dilemmas for America will be that American companies will do very well while American workers might not.
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When I was a kid, there was so much talent outside of recorded music.
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In the process of them developing this instrument, I've been playing the melodica in the style I would like the harmoniboard to be played, which is a mix between a harmonica and keyboard. I play with trumpet style techniques. I really like the mobility of being able to step off the piano and bring the music to the audience.
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I think there are different ways of being rigorous, and I am asking people to be as rigorous in their pleasure as in their criticism.
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I used to think that if I had success I would have freedom. But I have less freedom now than I've ever had. And what gives me satisfaction is not the jewelry and not the cars. What gives me satisfaction is doing things for others, like children.
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People speak with enormous pomposity and arrogance about music.
