Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick MacManus) Quotes
Music is more like water than a rhinoceros. It doesn't charge madly down one path. It runs away in every direction.
Quotes to Explore
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I got thrust into some great things when I was really young.
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It's hard not to get depressed when you pay attention to the world and how strangely and corrupt the people in it sometimes behave.
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I don't meet many people who are talking about shows on Showtime.
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Kids have a weird honesty, especially in their reaction to things where a lot of older people who have matured have lost that.
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War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.
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We all need some TLC and to pat ourselves on the back from time to time.
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I'm motivated by creating a level playing field for the world so that the weak have a chance.
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It always weirds me out and makes me unhappy that some people think I'm Justin. I'm not. People can be talking to me and I know they think they are talking to Justin. It's hard to explain.
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Being a rock star isn't all it's cracked up to be, let me tell you.
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Love is a really scary thing and you never know what's going to happen. It's one of the most beautiful things in life, but it's one of the most terrifying. It's worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.
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Nothing is sadder than love left unheard.
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Pop is actually my least favorite kind of music, because it lacks real depth.
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Naturally, we are inclined to be so mathematical and calculating that we look upon uncertainty as a bad thing...Certainty is the mark of the common-sense life. To be certain of God means that we are uncertain in all our ways, we do not know what a day may bring forth. This is generally said with a sigh of sadness; it should rather be an expression of breathless expectation.
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Faith is the head chemist of the mind.
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Social mores change with time, like fashion - who knows where it might all end up? I especially like the idea that waste, impoliteness and overpopulation become "abominations," although I'm not sure recycling one's aunt will ever truly catch on.
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Unmissed but by his dogs and by his groom.
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I'm most proud of my family.
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Nature conceals her mystery by her essential grandeur.
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This faith transforms the whirlwind of despair into a warm and reviving breeze of hope. The words of a motto which a generation ago were commonly found on the wall in the homes of devout persons need to be etched on our hearts: Fear knocked at the door. Faith answered. There was no one there.
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The truth is that God is the force. He is the essence of life. He is pure and undefiled consciousness. He is eternal.
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Freaks, they are very prejudiced. You have to have your hair long and talk in a certain way in order to be with them. In order to be the other way you have to have your hair short and wear ties.
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The best advice I've heard was from a lady in her 80s at my grandmother's 90th birthday. I was telling her how wonderful my children are. She said, "Don't forget your husband: you only borrow your children; your husband you'll have for ever."
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Music is more like water than a rhinoceros. It doesn't charge madly down one path. It runs away in every direction.
