Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick MacManus) Quotes
It's the damage that we do and never know. It's the words that we don't say that scare me so.
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When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
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I don't take pleasure in anyone's demise, really.
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To portray not only a boxer but a boxer like Roberto Duran, I needed to understand all the difficulties and the pressures of the sport itself.
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But if I played well and prepared myself properly, then all I had to do was control myself and put myself in a position to win.
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Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.
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If there is no threat to the lives of the citizens, our tactic will be to not intervene or impede members of the protest in expressing their will freely.
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We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes.
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We needed time off from each other after our last tour because there was a lot of personal stuff we had to take care of. Eddie needed hip replacement surgery. Al needed his back worked on. And I was going to have a baby.
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If you don't have a dream, how are you going to make a dream come true?
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Have you noticed how most directors are either bald or grey-haired?
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If you think about my filmography, I have never done a movie that a kid could go see, except for 'Iron Giant,' and I'm not even on the screen.
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I would hate to be on a plane every day.
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I buy clothes that have repeat value.
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veritas norma sui et falsi est
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But at a time when our discourse has become so sharply polarized - at a time when we are far too eager to lay the blame for all that ails the world at the feet of those who think differently than we do - it's important for us to pause for a moment and make sure that we are talking with each other in a way that heals, not a way that wounds.
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I am not gay. I never have been gay.
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Verum ubi pro labore desidia, pro continentia et aequitate libido atque superbia invasere, fortuna simul cum moribus immutatur. Ita imperium semper ad optimum quemque a minus bono transfertur. (II)
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Sweet darlin’, come hold me, Just a little bit longer now
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I don't surf the net in general. I have someone do it for me instead, because I find it sluggish.
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When every new football season starts, we get all excited about the Browns. But no matter how bad they do, no matter how much they say they're rebuilding, they always have the support of that town behind them. No matter what, Cleveland is always behind the Browns, and we always root for them. One of these days, it's going to pay off!
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Never, never did I think I would be in a Disney movie.
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The more subsidized it is, the less free it is. What is known as 'free education' is the least free of all, for it is a state-owned institution; it is socialized education-just like socialized medicine or the socialized post office-and cannot possibly be separated from political control.
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The state-initiated referendum has always been a part of this anti-democratic logic. Stop the talk, we're going to decide, yes or no. At this point the citizen's role is to wave one flag or the other and cheer for one side of the simple question or the other. In other words, we're reduced to children.
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It's the damage that we do and never know. It's the words that we don't say that scare me so.
