Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick MacManus) Quotes
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Everything was magnificent so far, even if I knew my part of dramas.
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Nate Diaz is a tough opponent. I've fought him.
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Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things.
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Illness has always brought me nearer to a state of grace.
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I'm now beginning to feel that the pessimistic vision is not for the movies.
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We all go back to our roots. My father went to the central west, went to Ilfracombe in 1919. He was the manager of the wool scour there. And, Ilfracombe was right at the heart of Australia's great wool industry, and my mother was a teacher at Winton.
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As long as you are successful and winning matches, the language is no problem at all. But when the results are insufficient, the difficulties begin. At this time, a coach needs to go into more detail with his instructions, and that's where the problems can lie.
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A woman asking 'Am I good? Am I satisfied?' is extremely selfish. The less women fuss about themselves, the less they talk to other women, the more they try to please their husbands, the happier the marriage is going to be.
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The stories about the life and teachings of Jesus were mainly told in Greek, the original language of the gospels.
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Two people will never be President in my lifetime. A woman and a black.
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I've realised that if I aim for a successful record, I probably won't have any success. But if I keep making weird things, then hopefully the audiences will come to us.
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We'll continue to invest in new technology because we think every woman should have the ability to be connected through her beauty knowledge, opinions, products, and routine.
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Rather than forcing local factories to clean up after themselves, Changzhou decided to outsource the job of managing its water supply to a French company named Veolia - one of a handful of corporate giants now scrambling to take over city water systems around the planet, especially in the often polluted and water-short developing world.
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Feminism, unlike almost every other social movement, is not a struggle against a distinct oppressor - it's not the ruling class or the occupiers or the colonizers - it's against a deeply held set of beliefs and assumptions that we women, far too often, hold ourselves.
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My whole goal is to keep my spirit intact. If that doesn't happen, none of this is worth it.
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One of my favourite things about living in the U.K. is having that chance to go to festivals.
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A fantasy of mine is being pulled up onstage by one of my favorite bands and singing or playing an instrument with them.
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As a lifestyle you always being the focal point is innately unhealthy.
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I come from this really small town near Nashville, Tennessee, where everything was la-di-da and normal.
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A certain emotional frostiness is the heritage of a culture that puts great stock in WASP values: One does not talk about money sex, religion, and above all, one does not expose one's feelings. If a case can be made for the cultural contouring of personality, the Puritan ethic is the culprit in such rubrics as 'Children should be seen and not heard' and 'Never complain, never explain.
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For two generations groups of women have given their lives and their fortunes to secure the vote for the sex and hundreds of thousands of other women are now giving all the time at their command. No class of men in our own or any other country has made one-tenth the effort nor sacrificed one-tenth as much for the vote.
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“Metaphors replace genuine uncertainty about the world with semantic ambiguity. A metaphor is a cover-up.”
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The public wants to understand and learn in a single day, a single minute, what the artist has spent years learning.
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There are some things you can't cover up with lipstick and powder.
