Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick MacManus) Quotes

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• You don't always get to work as much as you like, because I'm waiting to find things that I care about. Sometimes that's frustrating.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Work
  • Care
  • Waiting

• I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Feel
  • Difficult
  • Adolescence

• My favorite place is Central Park because you never know what you're going to find there. I also like that when I look out the windows of surrounding hotels, it's seems like I'm looking out over a forest.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Know
  • Look
  • Forest

• We see new things all the time. We see new retroviruses out there - which is the category that HIV falls into - and we're very, very concerned because this is the part of the world where HIV jumped from chimpanzees to humans.

  

  Nathan Wolfe
  • Time
  • World
  • New Things

• You learn from the things that happen in your career. You get up and down. You never give up. All the things that happened in my career, thank God it happened early rather than late in my career.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Up
  • God
  • Career

• There are a lot of people who've been able to ditch their Windows machines and switch over to Linux because they can now use their Exchange server for calendaring and collaboration from their Linux desktop.

  

  Nat Friedman
  • People
  • Now
  • Collaboration

• Being married to a footballer is some girls' dream, but it isn't always like that. I work.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Work
  • Dream
  • Always

• Education is the development of power and ideal.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Power
  • Education
  • Ideal

• Two hundred channel choices in most homes certainly gives you the world of choice. And so slicing it, dicing it, and offering someone their favorite thing - by the way, if it's not good enough, make it yourself and post it.

  

  Warren Littlefield
  • World
  • Good
  • Choices

• It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.

  

  Walter Hagen
  • Art
  • Character
  • Beauty

• There's always been some concern that adult subject matter should be quarantined from a page that attracts children. Unlike late at night, when 'South Park' and 'Colbert' are on, impressionable minds are wide awake when the newspaper arrives.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Children
  • Night
  • Page

• While there are manners and compliments we do not meet, we do not teach one another the lessons of honesty and sincerity that the brutes do, or of steadiness and solidity that the rocks do. The fault is commonly mutual, however; for we do not habitually demand any more of each other.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Honesty

• If you paint, write, do mosaics, knit - if it's solving that part of your brain saying, 'I need to do this,' you've won.

  

  Albert Brooks
  • Brain

• Writing is, of course, a solitary occupation. But for many writers, myself included, it's through writing that we make certain vital connections.

  

  Elizabeth Berg
  • Writing

• People get so tired of the '60s.

  

  David Chase
  • People
  • Tired

• I can't remember a time when I didn't write or make up stories, because it seemed to come with reading.

  

  Lisa Tuttle
  • Up
  • Time
  • Remember

• I very rarely use a credit card, but I do if I know I have big bills coming and I need to stagger payment.

  

  Andrea McLean

• No matter whether it's someone from the political left or right, we just need a voice to stand up and defend animal rights.

  

  Brigitte Bardot
  • Up
  • Political
  • Animal

• Over the past five years, I have often recalled that the United Nations' Charter begins with the words: 'We the peoples.' What is not always recognized is that 'we the peoples' are made up of individuals whose claims to the most fundamental rights have too often been sacrificed in the supposed interests of the state or the nation.

  

  Kofi Annan
  • Up
  • Past
  • Words

• The first time I heard a Billie Holiday record, I thought, 'What's so great about Billie Holiday?'

  

  Diana Ross
  • Time
  • Great
  • Firsts

• The struggle to get weapons is continuous, but the United States will aid us, if it finds Israel displaying a willingness for peace.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • Peace
  • Struggle
  • Israel

• Leaders focus on what they can control, what they have, and what they want.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Leaders

• I had the perfect level, growing up, between being normal and having a little taste into Hollywood. People would recognize me once in a while, but I could still go out and have my life.

  

  Emma Kenney
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• There's so many people to see. So many people to check up on and add to your collection.

  

  Elvis Costello
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