Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick MacManus) Quotes
I've worked hard, every single day since I left school. I think I have a Protestant work ethic.
Elvis Costello
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In my town, and especially in my area, there were people from everywhere: Algerians, Senegalese, French people, Asians, all kinds of immigrants and natives, and everyone circulated.
Tahar Rahim
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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
Wallace Stevens
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If you're too scared to put your dreams, thoughts, desires, fantasies on paper and share them with the world, then being an author isn't the right career for you.
P. C. Cast
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Iowa has sent notice that the Republican nominee for the next president of the United States will not be chosen by the media. Will not be chosen by the Washington establishment. Will not be chosen by the lobbyists. But will be chosen by the most incredible powerful force, where all sovereignty resides in our nation by we the people.
Ted Cruz
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Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.
Malcolm Turnbull
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I'm extremely determined and ambitious.
Tamra Davis
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When I was first exposed to the films of Ingmar Bergman, I found them frank and disturbing portraits of the world we live in, but that was not something that displeased me. They were beautiful. I thought people would respond to my plays the way I responded to Bergman's films.
Wallace Shawn
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I think a lot of officers go into that line of work because they have a calling for it. But at some point, they find themselves in the middle of their lives having seen some of the darkest things that are just unimaginable to the rest of us.
Sam Jaeger
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At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself: ‘I have to go to work – as a human being. What do I have to complain of, if I’m going to do what I was born for – the things I was brought into the world to do? Or is this what I was created for? To huddle under the blankets and stay warm?’ (Hays translation)
Marcus Aurelius
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When I am playing baseball, I give it all that I have on the ball field. When the ball game is over, I certainly don't take it home. My little girl who is sitting out there wouldn't know the difference between a third strike and a foul ball. We don't talk about baseball at home.
Jackie Robinson
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The longer you are in a place, the more you get under its layers.
Frances Mayes
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I've worked hard, every single day since I left school. I think I have a Protestant work ethic.
Elvis Costello
