Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick MacManus) Quotes
I'm goin' to take a little trip, down paradise's endless shores. They say that travel broadens the mind, till you can't get your head out of doors.
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I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world. This is the perfect job for me.
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I really love nature. I grew up in the country. But one of the things about nature is that it is beautiful but it's also very dangerous.
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When you return to the same area a few times, you get that frequent rapport with the public and the fans of the music along with having a certain warmth when you walk onstage.
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Being a gal, people can be a bit patronizing. 'Oh, look at you using the computer.' They would never say that to a boy. And I don't let them do it to me.
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I think it's fine for girls to ask boys out. I actually prefer it.
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With brain and body, it's great if you have a connection between the two, but when separated, that leads to a lot of conflict.
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I'm from the school of, 'if you want more, you have to require more from yourself.'
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I hear my songs being sung by females before I change them and make them into my voice.
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Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.
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I feel quite fearless protecting the people I love.
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Before coming here I had a minor back problem and I thought whenever I play Pakistan I get a back problem.
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We should learn to think with our fingers.
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Diligence, hard work, foresight, entrepreneurship and God's blessing.
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Everybody's a nun.
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Advice, n. The smallest current coin.
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More time than not, athletes, specifically fighters, have a 15 or 20-year career, and unfortunately, we end up right where we started when it's over. All we have is maybe a round of applause when we walk in a room - Hey, there's the champ! That's great; I want that, but I've got to have something tangible to show for it, too.
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You don't start out getting into the gym and bench pressing 300 pounds. You start out by doing the bar.
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I have a sense that many Americans, especially those like me with European or foreign parents, feel they have to invent their families just as they have to invent themselves.
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How is it that you should feel so vastly superior whenever you do not happen to enter into or understand your neighbour's thoughts when, as a matter of fact, your not being able to do so is less a sign of folly in your neighbour than of incompleteness in yourself?
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I'm in a monogamous relationship and very happy.
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The people have tasted it and have made great sacrifices and will not give out ... We have blazed a path for ourselves … and we will win.
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I tell you, in this world, being a little crazy helps to keep you sane.
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I'm goin' to take a little trip, down paradise's endless shores. They say that travel broadens the mind, till you can't get your head out of doors.
