Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick MacManus) Quotes
Well there's a line that you must toe and it'll soon be time to go but it's darker than you know in those Complicated Shadows.
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Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse their ego, their identity.
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I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.
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I listen to music all the time, and I just choose things I like, or things that I've not used before. Sometimes I work with music that's very difficult - that I don't even particularly like, per se, but that is really complex or interesting.
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I know what it means to do a job... I worked in a factory. I respect people in the service industry. What irritates me more is when people aren't respectful. There's a lot of nonsense behavior, especially in a place like Hollywood. The money, the power, they create little monsters.
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If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.
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The world knows of a vast stock of epic material scattered up and down the nations; sometimes its artistic value is as extraordinary as its archaeological interest, but not always.
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There is no evil in human affairs that has not some good mingled with it. [It., Non e male alcuno nelle cose umane che non abbia congiunto seco qualche bene.]
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I was never really that aware of commercial things. The stuff that was really influential to me were bands like the Misfits or the Birthday Party, or things like that. If someone said, "Do you love Judas Priest?" - I never really even had a Judas Priest record. That's not what I grew up with. That wasn't really my scene, you know? That's why White Zombie never really fit. I still don't fit.
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Yes, twenty-seven million in slavery is a lot of people, but it is just .0043 percent of the world's population. Yes, $23 billion a year in slave-made products as services is a lot of money but it is exactly what Americans spent on Valentine's Day in 2005. If humans trafficking generates $32 billion in profits annually, that is still a tiny drop in the ocean of the world economy.
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Great stories move through fear.
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I think I'm a pretty right down the middle guy. I just think that's kind of who I am. I'm not afraid of my own journey.
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When I want your opinion, I'll remove the duct tape.--T-SHIRT
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You can't resolve a dilemma with all the very same mind that made it.
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I've always enjoyed writing, I graduated with a degree in English; I've done bits of journalism.
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Every where the years bring to all enough of sin and sorrow; but in slavery the very dawn of life is darkened by these shadows.
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I Am... I Said is a very complicated song and its complicated probably because my feelings were very complicated when I wrote it.
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Well there's a line that you must toe and it'll soon be time to go but it's darker than you know in those Complicated Shadows.
