Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick MacManus) Quotes
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I shall strive not to be guilty of adding any fuel to the flames of hatred and passion which, if continued to be fed, promise to burn up whatever is left by the war of decent human feeling in Europe.
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One of the things I took from my wartime experiences was that reality was a stage set... the comfortable day-to-day life, school, the home where one lives and all the rest of it... could be dismantled overnight.
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Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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In seeking a lawyer, you are looking for an advocate, an expert advisor on the law and on your rights and responsibilities, a strategist, a negotiator, and a litigator.
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When you love somebody and they die young and you are young, too, it is very hard.
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Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It's not hard. Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking.
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My doctors warned me repeatedly that if you don't stay positive, you don't do well.
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The Pakistani woman's image internationally is perceived to be regressive, which is not true.
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I've always said that Adele has turned so many people on to British singers - whether female singers or just like music from this country in general.
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My golf score is really bad. I don't know. I'm definitely not a good golfer. Off the tee box, I can drive it about 275, and I'm in the fairway about 99% of the time. It's my next shot that needs work.
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The only freedom that man ever has is when he becomes a slave to Jesus Christ.
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The world is filled with God's glory. You can't turn without bumping into it.
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Send me out into another life lord because this one is growing faint I do not think it goes all the way
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I know that my fans want to know who I'm sleeping with, but it's really none of their business.
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Life is overwhelming. Life is not easy. Life is tough and you need something that really works and helps you actually, not promises to help you, then fail.
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Writing music and lyrics that mean something personal to me. It's an exciting, intense, cathartic, this-is-who-I-am experience.
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Waste no words on a man who dislikes you. Actions will impress him more.
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A period recourse into the wilds is not a retreat into secret silent sanctums to escape a wicked world, it is to take breath amid effort to forge a better world.
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The rush to attribute culpability to a minority after an act of mass murder is a rush to exonerate the general public – how can we specify the ways in which the killer was not “one of us”? When the shooter comes from a racial or religious group, this is a relatively simple if despicable enterprise. When they are just another white male, the only remaining option is to locate a disability diagnosis.
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I can't say anymore than I love you. Anything else would be a waste of breath.
