Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick MacManus) Quotes
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Cooking is like music: you can tell when someone puts love into it. I come from a place where there was so much attention to detail. The population is smaller in the South, so more attention is given to serving smaller numbers of people.
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Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.
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Mike Pence not only knows the Capitol. He knows the players in the House and the Senate. He knows how the committee system works. But he also knows all the governors. And so that really brings a unique talent to the picture.
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If a man has money, it is usually a sign, too, that he knows how to take care of it; don't imagine his money is easy to get simply because he has plenty of it.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.
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Being typecast is the enemy of any actor, so if you can try to do something that flips on the head peoples' ideas of who you are or what you can do, that's my biggest aim.
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The Strauss Group identified water as a strategic category presenting significant business opportunity in line with the Group's long term business strategy and vision. We view the development of a technology that enables high quality drinking water for both home and offices as a means to improve the quality of life of millions of people.
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No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
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From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.
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There is no bore like a clever bore.
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It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.
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You have to find a way - and thankfully for me, it's been music - to separate yourself from the racial identity. It's not easy, and I continue to work, God bless, and I'm really, truly appreciative of it.
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I don't want to build any image for myself. I don't want people to say, 'He does only a certain type of role.' I don't want only to be the hero of the story. An actor's weakness is the different roles that he can't do. But I am keen to grab only those roles as I am here to challenge myself.
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The lack of a consistent policy from major economies is the main source of volatility.
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And when did mere preaching do any good? Put something in the place of these things. Fill the vacuum of the mind.
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The two championship contenders, Dario Franchitti and Will Power, are starting right next to each other in the middle of the grid. Honestly, if I can be fast enough early in the race to be able to get up there and latch onto those two, it will be pure entertainment. It's going to be a pack race, and you never know how that's going to turn out.
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The Spirit of the Holy Ghost is the teacher in the temple. He teaches principles of eternal significance. It is during these instructions that we see the relationship between the earthly and the eternal. We must remember that the Spirit teaches only those who are teachable.
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There has been a lot of media attention around the dangers of drugs used to treat mental illness on the fetus.
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All my life I been doin' what people tell me to do. Now, I'm telling them.
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You have to learn to take rejection not as an indication of personal failing but as a wrong address.
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Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that.
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There is a strange reluctance on the part of most people to admit that they enjoy life.
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I've had an unusual life. A life far removed from most people's experience.
