Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick MacManus) Quotes
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It's not a lack of confidence, because I can't argue with the fact that I've taken some good pictures. But it's just a raw fear that you've taken the last one.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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When people go through tragic circumstances, it's not that there is no love there, but it's so hard to deal with and sometimes the gap starts to happen.
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As policymakers, we need to foster an environment that allows U.S.-based innovators and entrepreneurs to compete and to flourish. Excessive regulations and bureaucratic red tape dramatically increase the cost of doing business and create uncertainty for companies.
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I think of myself as a plain human being who happens to be an American.
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People don't think an athlete nowadays can have a team-first mentality and I do.
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We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war.
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I did make a choice when I got away from baseball to be there to get my kids off to college.
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I have a fierce temper. I've mastered it over the years, but when I'm angry, no one can force me to do anything I don't want to.
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I'm a spiritual person, I'm an America, I'm a Jew, and all of those things influence every breath I take, everywhere I go.
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I love the 2000s because everyone started to love haute couture.
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In the bosom of her respectable family resided Camilla.
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I am cocky in prediction, I am confident in preparation but I am always humble in victory or defeat.
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So many men are deprived of grace. How can one live without grace? One has to try it and do what Christianity never did: be concerned with the damned.
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The great affair, we always find, is to get money.
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I'd say the majority of my friends are Australians, although I have some good American friends, but I think with Aussies, we just get it. We don't take each other too seriously, which is a relief.
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In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science.
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When I left SEIU, we had started this quality public service agenda to say to our members what I think the United Auto Workers learned: that quality is our only job security in the long run.
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Terrorists can utilize any vulnerability in the system and that would include outbound shipments.
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My dad was an adventurer, my mother a romantic. When they met in college, both were creative writers; the writing was a bond.
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I write because I actually enjoy writing. It's a plus and a fringe benefit that, you know, I can actually provide for my family and, you know, a few people know my name - that's great.
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I could have probably built a great career in management consulting, but one of the insights that I had early on is that just because you're good at something doesn't mean that you should continue to do it. Somewhere in my heart of hearts I knew it wasn't what I wanted to do.
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Education has now become the chief problem of the world, its one holy cause. The nations that see this will survive, and those that fail to do so will slowly perish. . . . There must be re-education of the will and of the heart as well as of the intellect; and the ideals of service must supplant those of selfishness and greed.
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Don't wear your heart on your sleeve when your remarks are off the cuff.
