Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick MacManus) Quotes

Somebody should clip Sting around the head and tell him to stop using that ridiculous Jamaican accent.

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• I feel my story has been exercised very thoroughly and very frequently.

  

  Jack Kilby
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• I miss my friends in public school, but it's kind of a part of something that you have to give up. I'd rather perform than go to public school.

  

  Jackie Evancho
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• Despite the disreputable company it keeps, bismuth is harmless. In fact, it's medicinal: Doctors prescribe it to soothe ulcers, and it's the 'bis' in hot-pink Pepto-Bismol. Overall, it seems like the most out-of-place element on the periodic table, a gentleman among scoundrels.

  

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• The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Always
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• Elaine Equi has been publishing her observant, often playful poetry for some 30 years, extending and deepening the range of her intrinsically wry voice.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Poetry
  • Years
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• Israel is stronger than all those who curse it.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Stronger
  • Israel
  • Curse

• Pre-show, I warm up my voice, stretch, do a little team huddle, and sometimes throw a shot of whiskey in there, too. After the show, I hang out at merch meeting people and signing things. After that, I usually try to see friends in whatever city we're in, or if I'm super beat, listen to a podcast and pass out.

  

  K. Flay
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• I grew up on a farm in Oregon, an adopted child, with one sibling, and parents the age of all my peers' grandparents. We lived in isolation from the people around us, and it was always a struggle to cope with as a child. The heart can really expire under those conditions. I always felt like I was looking at the world from the outside.

  

  Larry Harvey
  • People
  • Up
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• Selling online is one channel, but it's not the only channel.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Selling
  • Only
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• I guess when people ask what is the biggest transition to the NBA from college, it is definitely defense and the mental part.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • People
  • College
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• The demons are innumerable, appear at the most inconvenient times, and create panic and terror. But I have learnt that if I can master the negative forces and harness them to my chariot, then they can work to my advantage.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Work
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• I don't really watch TV series because I don't want to get hooked on them and have them suck up all my time.

  

  M. Ward
  • Up
  • Time
  • Want

• I love 70's music.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Music
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  • I Love

• It was an honour for me to have been able to work with Mr. Mandela in the process that led to the adoption of the interim constitution and our first democratic elections in April 1994.

  

  F. W. de Klerk
  • Work
  • Constitution
  • April

• My dream evening is wearing my sweatpants, eating something delicious and watching TV with my boyfriend.

  

  India de Beaufort
  • Dream
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• I've learned over and over that life happens on its own terms, not mine.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Life
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  • Over

• Grant me the ability to be alone, May it be my custom to go outdoors each day among the trees and grasses among all growing things and there may I be alone, and enter into prayer to talk with the one that I belong to.

  

  Nachman of Breslov
  • May
  • Growing
  • Alone

• You'd be surprised the type of people who are into metal when you see them. Sometimes I'm even surprised, but it's cool. That's the reason it's still around.

  

  Glenn Danzig
  • Reason
  • Around
  • Metal

• My songs are like Bic razors. For fun, for modern consumption. You listen to it, like it, discard it, then on to the next. Disposable pop.

  

  Freddie Mercury Queen
  • Songs
  • Consumption
  • Discard

• How much further can your head get up your ass that you're actually judging someone as a person based on their sexuality before you even have a conversation with them?"

  

  Ariana Grande
  • Up
  • Judging
  • Conversation

• Man is head, chest and stomach. Each of these animals operates, more often than not, individually. I eat, I feel, I even, although rarely, think... This jungle crawls and teems, is hungry, roars, gets angry, devours itself, and its cacophonic concert does not even stop when you are asleep.

  

  Rene Daumal
  • Angry
  • Head
  • Stomach

• Somebody should clip Sting around the head and tell him to stop using that ridiculous Jamaican accent.

  

  Elvis Costello
  • Head
  • Accent
  • Sting