Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick MacManus) Quotes

I love you more than anything in this world. I don't expect that will last.

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• The thing about markets, and I think the thing people don't understand about that, is markets are not kind, but they're very efficient. So when the marketplace determines an inefficiency in the system, it corrects that, and a market system that's left alone will reward good behavior and punish bad behavior.

  

  Randy Neugebauer
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• For the most part, I do a lot of my own stunts. On 'The Final Destination,' they kept pulling my stunt woman in, and I'd shoo her away. I'm a black belt in tae kwon do, so I was adamant about doing stuff myself.

  

  Haley Webb
  • Black
  • Myself
  • Woman

• Our children and grandchildren are not going to have the same standard of living unless we educate that workforce.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Children
  • Grandchildren

• My family are huge 'Star Wars' fans.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Family
  • Star
  • Fans

• I was totally offended when people said we were like *Nsync. I've got nothing against them. I know those guys. But comparing us was lame. It was apples and oranges.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • People
  • Know
  • Said

• I think I have a very good reputation amongst the gay population and among the whole country because I stood up on the issue of gay rights. It is not easy to stand up on that issue when you are single and male in New York City. I did it anyway.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Up
  • Good
  • Country

• Every city has a Donald Trump; ours is just the Trumpiest.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • City
  • Trump
  • Just

• I cannot consent to be led three or four hundred leagues out of my route, without its being by force of arms.

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • Force
  • Three
  • Without

• When I get online, there's this cycle of anxiety and narcissism that takes over, which is the part of me that I like the least.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Me
  • Anxiety
  • Cycle

• Some article called me the most feared man in Silicon Valley. Good Lord! Why? My teenage boys got a kick out of it: 'Dad, how could this be true? You're not even the most feared person in this house.'

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Good
  • Why
  • True

• There's a humble beauty about listening to period instruments that I like.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Listening
  • Period
  • Beauty

• This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

  

  Earl Wilson
  • World
  • Love
  • Better

• African Americans make up about 13 percent of the U.S. population but comprise 32 percent of patients treated for kidney failure, giving them a kidney failure rate that is 4.2 times greater than that of white Americans.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Failure

• I love speculating about solutions to problems in mathematics. I have no interest whatever in sudoku. But I do look at chess and bridge problems in newspapers. I find that relaxing.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Problems
  • Interest
  • Relaxing

• It disturbed me that the music industry had gone down the drain, even though people were listening to more music than ever and from a greater diversity of artists.

  

  Daniel Ek
  • People
  • Music
  • Listening

• My room is dominated by the huge painting, which is a copy of 'The Violation' by the Belgian surrealist Paul Delvaux. The original was destroyed during the Blitz in 1940, and I commissioned an artist I know, Brigid Marlin, to make a copy from a photograph. I never stop looking at this painting and its mysterious and beautiful women.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Women
  • Beautiful
  • Stop

• As a writer, the best mindset is to be unafraid.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Best
  • Writer
  • Mindset

• Over the years, I've heard a lot of people who don't feel that they have it in them to do anything creative. They shrug and claim that they 'have no talent.' They say things like, 'Don't quit your day job' or 'Leave it to the professionals.' In the steampunk subculture, I don't hear those things.

  

  Kaja Foglio
  • People
  • Job
  • Day

• I think the most exciting thing is that you expect people our age to know the music, but actually a lot of kids know the music, and if anything is left, we have left really good music. And that`s the important part, not the mop-tops or whatever.

  

  Ringo Starr The Beatles
  • People
  • Music
  • Age

• I love this life, because I am a human being and it sure would be nice, I think, to preserve it. But I don't even know if that's true, because God's mind is huge, and I don't really know what he's thinking.I can only do what I do with a spirit of humor, and faith and give the controls over to something else.

  

  Elizabeth Lesser
  • Faith
  • Humor
  • I Love

• I'm a full-contact actor, meaning that I love to act in my toes and in my fingers, and I just try to keep it surprising.

  

  Eric Stonestreet
  • Actor
  • I Love
  • Surprising

• Theater to me is acting but it's more real on film.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • Real
  • Film
  • Acting

• I love you more than anything in this world. I don't expect that will last.

  

  Elvis Costello
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