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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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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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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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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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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The real danger of writing a great song when you're on something is that it might get you thinking that the only way to repeat that is by only writing when you're high.
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The rich man's dog gets more in the way of vaccination, medicine and medical care than do the workers upon whom the rich man's wealth is built.
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You don't have to wait-you can have it in 5.004_54 or so.
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There are many great fighters in the UFC; some of my favorites are Rodrigo Nogueira, Lyoto Machida, and B. J. Penn, but aside from these guys, the UFC has many great fighters in every division.
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The raising of an eyebrow, how you do it; when you look, how you look. All those little things are physical.
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If I'm feeling like a Barbie girl, I'm gonna throw that blonde wig on. It's just the mood.
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I can't be enthusiastic as soon as I write something on the music sheet. The music sheet is only the beginning: it has to be listened to, played by the instruments, and then heard by the director, but most importantly, it has to be listened to by the public.
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A man of letters never objects to a slum. He sharpens his pen there.
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When I was first pitched the show, I was like, 'Oh, God, a soapy show called 'Mistresses.'' But it wasn't that at all. It wasn't a bunch of women pulling guns on each other and stabbing each other in the back. We really have a core friendship.
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People speak with enormous pomposity and arrogance about music.
