Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick MacManus) Quotes
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I miss having my mom and close friends around. Thank God for Skype and Face-Time, which keep me connected... but interacting digitally can't come close to the feeling of being hugged by my mom or getting together for a meal with my friends on the same table.
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What goes for sex goes double for politics.
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It just seems like the most fun thing in the world. I've never met people who have kids who haven't looked me in the eye and been like, 'It's the greatest thing that's ever happened.'
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I've ended up becoming my mother in some respects, despite my eight years of analysis!
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I am genuinely into soul, R&B and hip hop - all these genres that get slapped under the 'soul' genre. That spoke to me more than it did to my punk-rock friends. And punk spoke more to me than it did to my soul friends. I basically didn't fit comfortably in either world.
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If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the troubles will come to an end, and the question which now distracts the country will be settled just as surely as all other difficulties of like character which have originated in this government have been adjusted.
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I grew up outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in a little town, and went to a regular high school. I was a... very average student in that high school. Then I joined the Navy, and while I was in the Navy, I was in a motorcycle accident and woke up deaf in a hospital.
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I never believed I was the best fighter in the world.
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To create a nice relationship with an ex, the love has to change form. I think you just have to put your children first.
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It's beneficial to play against your type; to be chameleon-like.
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When I started in California, people would say, 'Enterprise who?'
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It would be a great adventure for Leicester to be in the Champions League.
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Good directors say, Here's where the play is. They stand by the heart of the matter. Some of them stand beside it.
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When the people who are responsible for our country ask you a direct question, I expect them to accept a direct answer, not to be blackballed because you are telling the truth.
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I was so overprotected, I used to think I was as delicate as people said I was.
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You got to choose between tightening your belt or losing your pants.
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Laws, like houses, lean on one another.
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I don't know that white people need to be 'allies' so much as understand that any black struggle in America is ultimately a struggle for the large country. 'Ally' presumes a kind of distance that I am not sure exists.
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In 1765, Parliament passed the Stamp Act, which, as any American high school student can tell you, was an act that apparently had something to do with stamps.
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Certainly I thought that was important for us. Particularly when you've got new receivers, you want to get in some kind of a groove there.
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You don't have to be singing specifically about things that are going on in your life, but because of the nature of music, because it is this incredibly emotional phenomenon, everything that you are feeling or experiencing is relayed in the music you put out.
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I wasn't afraid of being poor; I rather took it for granted. I was good at getting by with very little. I couldn't imagine sacrificing my writing to anything else.
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Sometimes I write notes that I have difficulty singing.
