Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick MacManus) Quotes
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I used to sing in jazz clubs with a friend until she went another way.
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It is essential to link enterprises on the basis of objective laws of a socialist economy and legal system.
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If we desire a society in which men are brothers, then we must act towards one another with brotherhood. If we can build such a society, then we would have achieved the ultimate goal of human freedom.
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I'm a machine man, and I head a machine.
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The Soviet Union was a very useful ally in the defeat of Nazi Germany.
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The goal, as Compaq has stated all along in its history, is to support an open industry standard.
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Scientifically speaking, if I say something, or it gets misquoted, or people put a spin on it... I mean, are you interested, really, in what people are saying?
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There's only one set of books I've written that I knew was going to be more than one book at the beginning, and those are the 'Missing Link' books.
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I'm a part of a program called Toyota's Engines of Change Program. The message is that anyone can make a difference in their community or for whatever cause they feel strongly about. Everyone can be an Engine of Change.
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I select a very small number of things to be sceptical about, such as markets, and on these I am hypersceptic. But I want to be fooled by randomness in art. I want the ceremonial of religion; we are made for it.
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With almost every book I've written, my secret target audience is the young therapist. In this way, I am staying in my professorial role; I'm writing teaching stories and teaching novels.
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It's always great playing with other musicians. It's also a great situation where I'm the older guy, I've influenced generations of guitar players.
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Philosophy stands in the same relation to the study of the actual world as masturbation to sexual love.
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To execute laws is a royal office; to execute orders is not to be a king. However, a political executive magistracy, though merely such, is a great trust.
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It's upsetting to me that you have to be a millionaire to invest in your friend's start-up.
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I've always made weird sounds with my mouth. I've always been fascinated by the sound design, what you can do with your mouth. I was the kid dancing around in third grade on the basketball court. While everyone would be playing sports, I would be jumping around.
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I had been tracked from grades 1 through 12 in an accelerated program in the public school system in Memphis and had done well in math and science classes. When I was getting ready for college, my guidance counselors suggested I look into engineering.
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I got the wake-up call that no one is policing our oceans. I wondered, how can I do anything? What really can I do to make things better? There are some perks to being a celebrity. My job is to be funny once in a while, but it's my responsibility to make good use of it.
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My parents never referenced Ethiopia that much, largely because of the circumstances under which we left. We left during a time of political upheaval, and there was a lot of loss that came with that, so my parents were reluctant to talk about those things. So I had, by and large, an American childhood.
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The thoughts of others Were light and fleeting, Of lovers' meeting Or luck or fame. Mine were of trouble, And mine were steady; So I was ready When trouble came.
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We Americans are not God's covenant people. America has, in any event, no biblical guarantee of perpetuity.
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Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.
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There's no such thing as an original sin.
