Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick MacManus) Quotes
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My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!
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For my film 'Fashion,' like an investigative journalist, I went about knowing the people, the models, the fashion designers. Similarly with the corporate world.
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Stereotypes lose their power when the world is found to be more complex than the stereotype would suggest. When we learn that individuals do not fit the group stereotype, then it begins to fall apart.
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Growing up, I'd just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck.
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We need to change America's image round the world. America has lost some lustre in terms of how folks aspire to be like us.
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You remember Donnie Brasco? It's the most notorious undercover movie ever; it's so street and so real. If you ever imagined yourself doing cop work, you imagined yourself getting pushed to that limit - seeing the furthest you can push yourself while still upholding the law.
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Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.
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It doesn't matter the amount of gore, the amount of shocks that you can have in a movie if the movie's not entertaining, if the story's not entertaining.
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But, I've always loved John Mayer and I think T-Pain is brilliant.
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But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.
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It's always in the second administration when things start to go sour. They circle the wagons.
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Our mission on Apollo 14 was to be the first to do science on the moon, so we had to be careful about getting everything in during the allotted time.
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I'm just fascinated by houses. In another life, I'd have probably trained as an architect. If I had enough money, I'd collect them like other people collect teapots. I don't know why I love them so much. I'm just very interested in the idea of a house as a metaphor for the way one lives.
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Most people are sceptical about the wrong things and gullible about the wrong things.
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There's definitely been times where there's stuff that I have not been comfortable with, and I've had to put my foot down.
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O meu coração é um pouco maior que o universo inteiro.
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No one trains like me. No one rides like me. This jersey's mine. I live for this jersey. It's my life. No one's taking it away from me. This fucking jersey's mine.
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It wasn’t what was done to you. Life was what you did with what was done to you.
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With faith and courage, generations of Armenians have overcome great suffering and proudly preserved their culture, traditions, and religion and have told the story of the genocide to an often indifferent world.
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When I obey a rule, I do not choose. I obey the rule blindly.
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Not even for a million dollars would I paint a tree.
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Prana is implicate to matter but explicate to mind; mind is implicate to prana but explicate to soul; soul is implicate to mind but explicate to spirit; and the spirit is the source and suchness of the entire sequence.
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If the mind is dominated by hatred, the best part of the brain, which is used to judge right and wrong, does not function properly.
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In the tiny torn up pieces of his mind he's irresistible too.
