Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick MacManus) Quotes
Morrissey writes wonderful song titles, but sadly he often forgets to write the song.

Quotes to Explore
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Annual plants are nature's emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the land until the perennial cover is re-established.
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Words are acoustical signs for concepts; concepts, however, are more or less definite image signs for often recurring and associated sensations, for groups of sensations. To understand one another, it is not enough that one use the same words; one also has to use the same words for the same species of inner experiences; in the end one has to have one's experiences in common.
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A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!'
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You couldn't get a job playing in a club unless you played so much Top 40 and so many Beatles songs. I just went into a sort of revolt.
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Heart is fun for the whole family!
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Variant: When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
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Urge him with truth to frame his fair replies And sure he will for Wisdom never lies.
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And I wanted to do a movie Moonrise Kingdom about a childhood romance - a very powerful experience of childhood romance. About what it's like to just be blindsided, when you're in fifth grade or sixth grade, by these kinds of feelings. Along the way, I sort of mixed in some interest in "young adult fantasy" writing.
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I've got a good shepherd; you've got a sadistic dentist.
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You can use meditation, and prayer, and ritual to foster compassion, love, and inclusiveness, or you can use them to foster hatred, and exclusiveness, and anger. And it's really just a matter of what concepts, ideas you decide to focus on.
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On the street luge side, you need to have a solid core and balance. A healthy body is a must in that sport if you want to compete for wins, and my diet has certainly enabled me to make the most of myself.
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She would search for him. In the land that lay east of the sun and west of the moon. But there was no way there.
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My gift's primarily literary. That being said, I ended up a musician. By the time I made the bluegrass record...I'm more impressed with myself when I push the envelope musically than I am when I push it literality.
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I felt great! I'm ready to roll tonight!
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The man or the woman who can display the nonviolence of the brave can easily stand against as external invasion.
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Even if we don't know if God exists, we can be certain love exists, because its power transcends death.
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We always look for operators with a combination of guts, passion and genius.
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For me, what I see happening in this [clean water] crisis is deterioration of the family. It is deterioration of our health.