Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick MacManus) Quotes
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I wish it were not a sin to have liked it so.
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There is always the fear of failure, and if you struggle, you become nervous, and that's when the underdogs have an opportunity to create a surprise.
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Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.
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As soon as street art got popular, I was just like, 'I'm out of here.'
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This country wants to laugh. We want to, and we need to. I'm happy to oblige.
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For me, I never, never, from the moment I started acting, had a desire to be famous.
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I don't believe in writer's block.
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My target is to give everything, and only if we win the trophies will I be relaxed.
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If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don't worry about it, that's the way we learn.
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When the 'New York Times' revealed the warrantless surveillance of voice calls, in December 2005, the telephone companies got nervous.
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The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity.
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There are a lot of Christian fundamentalists; there are a lot of Muslim extremists. Every religion - Mormonism - has something way on the side that's completely using the religion as some weird backbone for their twisted faith. It has nothing to do with their religion.
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My goal? To test out every diet and exercise regimen on planet earth and figure out which work best. I sweated, I cooked, I learned to pole dance. In the end, I lost weight, lowered my cholesterol and doubled my energy level. I feel better than I ever have.
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There was a lot of hype about social media in President Obama's first campaign. It was important, but it wasn't as important as I think people let on.
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In general, I would say I'm probably a little more conscious of looking after my skin since I moved to L.A.
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Ukraine must once again be revered and respected by its citizens as well as the East and the West.
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An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
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It costs a great deal of money to do a musical, and the more money involved, the more big business influences the artform.
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My lifestyle had made me a walking time bomb.
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All places that the eye of heaven visits Are to a wise man ports and happy havens. Teach thy necessity to reason thus; There is no virtue like necessity.
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There are different sides to me; I wanted to make a personal film but I would not want to make any film that does not reflect me in it. At least, not right now. I'm just too young to be doing that.
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You don't know who you will fall in love with. You just don't. You don't control it. Some people have certain things, like, 'That's what I'm going for,' and I have a subjective version of that. I don't pressure myself … If you fall in love with someone, you want to own them - but really, why would you want that? You want them to be what you love. I'm much too young to even have an answer for that question.
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When in doubt, play track 4 - it is usually the one you want.
