Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick MacManus) Quotes
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If I like a thing, it just sticks after once reading it or hearing it.
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For me, whenever I would see a lot of 'black films,' I didn't feel represented in it. I didn't feel connected to the characters or the situations or the humor.
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Racism is unacceptable in the real world, and it's unacceptable online.
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You learn who you really are in a fight - what you're really made of. You have to face yourself and rise above your own fears and failings.
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My motto is more, 'If you want to find something new, look for something new!' There is a certain amount of risk in this attitude, as even the slightest failure tends to be resounding, but you are so happy when you succeed that it is worth taking the risk.
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The 2012 London Olympic Games fostered a generation of hope. I witnessed women participating for the very first time, representing every nation.
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I grew up watching a lot of French cinema.
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People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.
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The aim of my life is the overthrow of monarchy.
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It's an honor for me to contribute to Houston's younger generations and show them that 'smart is cool.'
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Bobby Knight told me this: 'There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.' In other words a good offense wins.
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I enjoyed working with Ted Kennedy.
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Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.
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Buttermilk's palate-cleansing tartness is one reason it's used a lot in southern India, where meals often end with a small bowl of the stuff served with plain rice and pickles.
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Working on 'Big Give' was an opportunity that I felt compelled to do. It was my chance to share in showing people how they can give big in their own life, to send the message that giving goes way beyond the gift of money. We want to share that the best thing you can give is your time and understanding.
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That consecrated combination of private interests and public plunders.
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Who owns the whole rainy, stony earth? Death.Who owns all of space? Death.
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There is a scale of virtues, and it is necessary, if one would mount the higher steps, to begin with the lowest; and the first virtue a man must acquire if he wishes to acquire the others, is that which the ancients called ἐγκράτεια or σωφροσύνη - i.e., self-control or moderation.
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Some people are just self-motivated - my husband was. I also believe there are many children for whom parental involvement is key.
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A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.
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What life means to me is to put the content of Shelley into the form of Zola. The proletarian writer is a writer with a purpose; he thinks no more of 'art for art's sake' than a man on a sinking ship thinks of painting a beautiful picture in the cabin; he thinks of getting ashore - and then there will be time enough for art.
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I followed you.' I saw no one.' That is what you may expect to see when I follow you.
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Passion and marriage are essentially irreconcilable. Their origins and their ends make them mutually exclusive. Their co-existence in our midst constantly raises insoluble problems, and the strife thereby engendered constitutes a persistent danger for every one of our social safeguards.
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Though the passion still flutters and flickers, it never got into our knickers.
