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'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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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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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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...so go on and play, and if you make a mistake, make it loud so you won't make it next time.
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Whose game was empires and whose stakes were thrones,Whose table earth, whose dice were human bones.
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Pain's nothing. Pain's what you give, not what you get.
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I write to make sense of things that don't make sense to me.
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I don't know what we did without Velcro in the American theater. It's a miracle substance! People had long intermissions, probably.
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I've always been for immigration reform; in 2007 I just didn't feel it had enough protections.
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As education becomes dematerialized, demonetized and democratized, every man, woman and child on the planet will be able to reap the benefits of knowledge. We're rapidly heading toward a world of education abundance.
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Is it not in accordance with divine order that every mortal is thrown into that situation where his hidden evils can be brought forth to his own view, that he may know them, acknowledge them, struggle against them, and put them away?
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You need a platform upon which to release an orchestral record, otherwise it's just going to be an obscurity.
