Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick MacManus) Quotes
These are the sort of things that push you on in music - the curiosity, a passion for new ideas.
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There is nothing out there that I have a grudge against or I have a problem with.
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Home court changes everything. If you have home court, you're expected to win.
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An egg white omelet with vegetables is one of my favorite breakfasts.
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When foreign assistance has a clear mission, buy-in from the aid-recipient country, and explicit metrics for implementation, the United States will be able to transition aid-recipient nations into strong trading partners. One of the greatest examples of this successful transition is South Korea.
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To be honest, once you've driven around for about five, 10 laps, you don't notice a difference.
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It's one thing to get a letter from your kid at camp telling you he wants to come home. It's another to get a letter from a grown child saying they're coming back to live with you!
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We need leaders who will stand unapologetically in defense of marriage.
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I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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I've been called Mr. Patient Money because I have the patience to work through challenging circumstances.
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If I like a thing, it just sticks after once reading it or hearing it.
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In film, you're so much in the hands and at the mercy of the editor, so sometimes it's good to watch it just to see how it turns out - it can be so different than how you imagined it. But sometimes it's better to just let it go for your own sense of self worth.
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Most of the media... is positioning the merger with Compaq and the recent actions by Walter Hewlett and David Packard as a fight between the past and the future.
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For many people, managing pain involves using prescription medicine in combination with complementary techniques like physical therapy, acupuncture, yoga and massage. I appreciate this because I truly believe medical care should address the person as a whole - their mind, body, and spirit.
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It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.
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In the spring of 1936, I was introduced by friends to Jean Tatlock. In the autumn, I began to court her. We were at least twice close enough to marriage to think of ourselves as engaged.
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PCR made it easier to see that certain people are infected with HIV.
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I love gay Mardi Gras in Sydney, which is a big parade, a big march that thousands and thousands of people participate in. And there's one little group... well it's not little, it's got hundreds of people marching, and they're all very sweet, middle-aged and elderly people who are the parents of gay children who are out and proud.
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People can't do miracles and are not responsible to do miracles, but people can pick up miracles from God and hand it to another person - a miracle happens when that occurs.
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You can't please everyone. When you're too focused on living up to other people's standards, you aren't spending enough time raising your own. Some people may whisper, complain and judge. But for the most part, it's all in your head. People care less about your actions than you think. Why? They have their own problems!
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I want to see a game designer nominated for a Nobel Prize.
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It doesn't necessarily mean at all that the composer plays his own works best.
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When I was 12, I did my first sort of speaking role. But I wouldn't say I had a passion for it from the start. It developed as I started to become a bit more mature.
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These are the sort of things that push you on in music - the curiosity, a passion for new ideas.
