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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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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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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Won't you look down upon me, Jesus, You've got to help me make a stand. You've just got to see me through another day. My body's aching and my time is at hand And I won't make it any other way.
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I fight on, I fight to win.
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All this could be part of a plan. But it’s some plan, isn’t it?; With mass destruction, pitiless extermination and annihilation going on all the time.
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Most superhero characters we see these days are from foreign countries. I would like to play a superhero that shows off Korean power.
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I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activity is a theatrical one. When you give a lesson the situation is the same as writing a book. You have to capture the attention, the complicity of your audience.
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My high salary for one season was forty-six thousand dollars and a Cadillac.
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It was easier than explaining DiMaggio's use as a metaphor.
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You can't build another bridge that's so close to ours. It's stupid.
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In the tiny torn up pieces of his mind he's irresistible too.
