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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What did Christ really do? He hung out with hard-drinking fishermen.
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The aim of my life is the overthrow of monarchy.
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Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.
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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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And it wasn't until I came out here to California when my brother got a role on the show Alice, that I also began to go on auditions for acting roles.
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Her face seems ravaged by both lightning and hail. But on yours there is something like the promise of a storm: one day passion will burn it to the bone.
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I never excelled at one sport or had a very strong passion for anything other than wrestling and bodybuilding.
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Here then is the real problem of our negligence. We fail in our duty to study God's Word not so much because it is difficult to understand, not so much because it is dull and boring, but because it is work. Our problem is not a lack of intelligence or a lack of passion. Our problem is that we are lazy.
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Though the passion still flutters and flickers, it never got into our knickers.
