Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick MacManus) Quotes
You need a platform upon which to release an orchestral record, otherwise it's just going to be an obscurity.
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I think Dilbert is actually a radical strip.
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I've always had a natural affiliation with nature. If I wasn't an actor, I'd be some sort of biologist working in the field in Africa or something.
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Things are simple, it is us human beings that make it difficult.
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In a way, I envy the freedom artists have. Artists can push themselves beyond their limits, in pursuit of their ideas and their vision, even if they are inhabited by demons that can also play tricks on them.
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If you believe in God, He will open the windows of heaven and pour blessings upon you.
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To think that guys who grew up in the '60s would make a miniseries supporting the idea that Oswald acted alone is something I certainly wouldn't have predicted. But time and evidence can change the way we view things.
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On one hand, it seems strange that a country that has suffered so much from violence and war would be debating if they want peace or not. But in Colombia, a part of society is deeply connected with the war as a means of making a living.
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I remember going to the Gap when I was in the fifth grade, and I desperately wanted a pair of blue jeans. I was with my dad, and I remember picking up the jeans, looking at them, and thinking that they had to fit me. But there was nothing that fit me. This was before the age of stretch, so I was trying on adult Gap.
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I will always do what I can to help others, but when I retire, I want to be a dad and a husband. I want a house and a dog in the yard. I want to have barbecues.
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A few honest men are better than numbers.
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The historical circumstance of interest is that the tropical rain forests have persisted over broad parts of the continents since their origins as stronghold of the flowering plants 150 million years ago.
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Democrats in Louisville were led by Courier-Journal editor Henry Watterson and were implacably opposed to blacks voting.
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Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.
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The artist makes art not to save mankind but to save himself. Every benevolent comment by an artist is a fog to cover his tracks, the bloody trail of his assault against reality and others.
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It is in this sense that Franklin says, 'war is robbery, commerce is generally cheating.'
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I do matter, and despising me was the gravest error of their lives.
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Where, where was Roderick then!One blast upon his bugle-hornWere worth a thousand men.
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A man without money is a bow without an arrow.
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Everyone knew that democracy - direct rule by all the people - required such spartan, soul-denying virtue on the part of all the people that it was likely to survive only where poverty made upright behavior necessary for the perpetuation of the race.
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Everyone who's serious about what they're doing must be in constant motion forward.
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I was a fat child and loved cake, perhaps because it was the only sweet thing in my life.
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Don't make the mistake of bringing your heart down here with you, there is no place for it in Furnace.
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You need a platform upon which to release an orchestral record, otherwise it's just going to be an obscurity.
