Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick MacManus) Quotes
My dad's father was a White Star Line trumpet player in the '20s. It shaped the way that I think about music. My grandfather was classically trained, military trained. He was an orphan who ended up in the Military School of Music in Kneller Hall.Elvis Costello
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I don't think any actor can be satisfied. I am still in the learning phase and hope I am always in the learning frame of mind in acting or in anything else that I do. That's what makes life interesting and worth living.
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I think it's important for girls to be confident. Believe in yourself and... everybody's hot.
Paris Hilton -
Dell fills its computers with crapware, collecting fees from McAfee and other vendors to pre-install 'trial' versions.
Barton Gellman -
I don't want to come off as one of those artists that's not down to earth and real.
La'Porsha Renae -
I didn't get a ton of interest from colleges in baseball and football, but I was outstanding in track and had the sense that this would be my meal ticket... Track was a sport where I saw immediate improvement, and I had a lot of good support behind me... and the coaches had a lot of experience and pushed me in that direction for sure.
Dan O'Brien -
They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact.
Barney Ross
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Beauty is the promise of happiness.
Edmund Burke -
Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.
Dale Dauten -
I am not from a film family or a Mumbai girl. The probability of getting a second chance is low, and so one has to be more careful.
Yami Gautam -
I'm a typical Irishman in that I only get home for weddings and funerals.
Walter O'Brien -
As a liberal, I am morally obligated to be pragmatic. What good do I do poor people, elderly people, people who are being discriminated against because of their sexual orientation if I'm not realistic about accomplishing something.
Barney Frank -
I like to cook, walk on the beach, go to concerts and look at fine art.
Fran Drescher
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Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.
Walker Evans -
I was just totally taken by Michael Jackson when I was a little kid, like everyone else.
Karen O -
Everything is worth precisely as much as a belch, the difference being that a belch is more satisfying.
Ingmar Bergman -
People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it.
Ogden Nash -
Feminism is nothing but equality, and actually, feminism benefits men because it liberates us and it releases us from many stigmas imposed by the macho culture on us as well. So if more of us could understand that it's nothing but equality, I think many agendas in terms of equality would have advanced quicker because it really helps us as well.
Edgar Ramirez -
I do think there is an important artistic component in what we do. As a technology company I've tried to really stress that.
Larry Page
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I am obsessed by people. Usually I try to get the girl out of the model instead of the model out of the girl.
Mario Testino -
There are some directors who actually fear the possible success of music. They fear that the audience or the critics will think the film has worked because there was a very good music score.
Ennio Morricone -
We’ve always been into bands like KISS, Wasp, and Twisted Sister. Shit like that. I actually need the corpsepaint when I’m on stage. It’s so much easier to perform, to get into the role and into the music wholeheartedly. When you have all the effects, it’s easier.
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My dad's father was a White Star Line trumpet player in the '20s. It shaped the way that I think about music. My grandfather was classically trained, military trained. He was an orphan who ended up in the Military School of Music in Kneller Hall.
Elvis Costello