Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick MacManus) Quotes
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I would do fragrance. I'm a fragrance fanatic.
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I never believed that U2 wanted to save the whales. I don't believe that The Beastie Boys are ready to lay it down for Tibet.
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Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
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I was a big fan of Indiana Jones; then I realized he was kind of a fake hero. The real heroes are the people who work hard and do their stuff right, like firefighters and policemen.
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Any effort to create a second class of Americans, I just can't swallow that.
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I didn't have a thing to do with picking a coach, and didn't want to. But I didn't think they'd pick one I didn't like.
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I am going to enjoy some other things apart from business.
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Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.
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China has to go along with world trends. That's democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.
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A number of organizations are already using Web GIS to create shared information and facilitate collaboration, and it is literally changing the way organizations operate.
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We can transform the government and the economy, as well as democracy, in Malaysia.
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I like to stay home with my family.
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The regulation of medicine has been a State function.
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I was born in Lebanon and emigrated to the U.S. and went back. I'd been raised in a French school in Beirut. Lebanon is a peculiar place, so bicultural it goes along with you. There is a Western influence, an Eastern influence. Most people are fluctuating between those identities.
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Being on a book tour is a lot easier than reporting.
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This city can be kind of brutal, so you see your dreams from every different angle, but ultimately it's about acting and if you enjoy acting, you will always enjoy acting.
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A good novel is one that shows the complexity of individuals, and creates enough space for all these characters to have a voice; in this way a novel is called democratic - not that it advocates democracy but that by nature it is so.
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The destructiveness of the tar sands is not inevitable. But Canadians and Albertans have become too tolerant of the politicians who compromise the nation's energy security as well as the next generation's future.
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My poems are political in the deeper sense of the word. Political means to live in your time, to be a man of your time.
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I told my father I wanted to act, and he stared renting all these classic films for me to watch.
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I have a very fun husband. He's managed to hang on to every person he's known since grammar school.
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I will have spent my life trying to understand the function of remembering, which is not the opposite of forgetting, but rather its lining. We do not remember. We rewrite memory much as history is rewritten. How can one remember thirst?
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I once did hold it, as our statists do, A baseness to write fair, and labour'd much How to forget that learning; but, sir, now It did me yeoman's service.
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There are a few things that I regret, but nothing that I need to forget.
