Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick MacManus) Quotes
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Most men have always wanted as much as they could get; and possession has always blunted the fine edge of their altruism.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man or any of that. I'm a character actor.
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More than half of all the hip hop record sales are white people, and I think that might be a result of my record helping people to accept hip hop.
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Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.
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I actually don't have a single regret, professionally or domestically. I planned it that way.
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Nothing is ever a setback. If anything, it just motivates you for what's next.
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Service is the overflow which pours from a life filled with love and devotion. But strictly speaking, there is no call to that. Service is what I bring to the relationship and is the reflection of my identification with the nature of God.
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And what, for instance, would have happened had Romeo and Juliet lived to middle age, their silhouettes broadened by pasta?
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The men who seem to know most of God's power have had great, unspeakable longings, at times, for a fresh consciousness of that power.
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It should be possible to exist with only a short shelf of books, to read and give away. After all - we may not open a book, once read, for ten years or more. But the act of reading has made it part of us - to relinquish it would be to lose an extension of our being.
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God has given me the will and the force to overcome all obstacles.
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In the end, though, maybe it's not how you reach a place that matters. Just that you get there at all.
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Nothing is ours except time.
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Job was astonished at seeing Almighty God so intent on doing good to us that He seems to have nothing more at heart than to love us and to induce us to love Him in return.
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I've never counted my chickens before they've hatched.
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Elvis Presley and Puccini shall return.
