Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick MacManus) Quotes
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Good cinema is what we can believe, and bad cinema is what we can't believe.
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I'm from Houston. I think I was thirty-seven before I ever set foot in Dallas, and that was just in the airport. So I've never really been there. Dad grew up in Port Arthur, Texas and all I can ever get out of him is, 'I wanted my first son to be named Dallas.'
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A woman caring for her children; a woman striving to excel in the private sector; a woman partnering with her neighbors to make their street safer; a woman running for office to improve her country - they all have something to offer, and the more our societies empower women, the more we receive in return.
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The fact is, Latinos now own their own lives and I believe they can afford to look back without judgment.
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Considering retirement is like skirting with the reality of what's to come, and I think that's why so many athletes decide to do more introspection at that point.
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I was this non-threatening funny guy who contrasted the image of the Brezhnevs and the Reagans of the world.
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I don't like shows, I don't like to put on a show, I just really want to work intimately with my actors.
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Whether you are a genius or an idiot, a thief or, like me, a Zen priest who has cultivated the mind for 30 years – the mind anyway is subject to conditions.
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I am very aware that playwrights, particularly good ones, have a intention for everything they write. Language and punctuation is used specifically, and most of the time actors can find wonderful clues about character in the rhythm and cadence of the language used.
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I like having a good time. It's probably my mother's Brazilian genes in me - party, party.
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Let me say something else about this generation. As Commander-in-Chief, I’m pretty tired of some folks trash-talking America’s military and troops.
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A king’s son has nothing but inferiors, each one a potential assassin.
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Part of manhood, I am thinking, is to ponder one’s words before opening one’s mouth.
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In a foreign country and with foreign species of life one should take measures to find out whether things will be keeping their value when dead. To settlers I give this advice: 'For the sake of your eyes and hearts, shoot not the Iguana.'
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(...) who is he that is not 'he' because of an idiot's ignorance?
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Are vital U.S. interests more imperiled by what happens in Iraq where were have 50,000 troops, or Afghanistan where we have 100,000, or South Korea where we have 28,000 - or by what is happening on our border with Mexico? … What does it profit America if we save Anbar and lose Arizona?
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Let wise men piece the world together with wisdom Or poets with holy magic. Hey-di-ho.
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Though Jesus Christ in Bethlehem A thousand times his Mother bore, Is he not born again in thee Then art thou lost for evermore.
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Theological or anti-theological argument to prove or disprove the existence of a deity seems to me to occupy itself largely with skating among the difficulties caused by our making a fetish of this word existence.
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We are reinventing the world. We've set the ball spinning with little concern for where and how it's going to stop.
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If I were given a choice between two films and one was dark and explored depraved, troubled or sick aspects of our culture, I would always opt for that over the next romantic comedy.
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Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
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I have a suggestion for Microsoft — no fancy programming required. Just let us users hang out a 'Do Not Disturb' sign. Then leave us alone. We're dreaming.
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You'll never be alone in the bone orchard.
