Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick MacManus) Quotes
I find it to be the ultimate backhanded compliment when you are compared against yourself.
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Eventually, I grew out of my interest in motorcycles because they're quite dangerous. I don't ride them anymore. But I have this history.
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We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
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Indian IT corporations have made work in the U.S. much more efficient by enhancing their productivity and quality of work. We have helped to add sufficient value to the corporations in the U.S.
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You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.
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Don't worry about it. Babe Ruth struck out on occasion, too.
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Well, to me, my past accomplishments weren't crazy. They required a lot of skill and careful planning.
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Romania is still very much underutilizing its natural and human potential.
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I believe in that old adage that 'as goes California, so goes the country.'
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Of the great entrepreneurs of this era, people will have forgotten Steve Jobs.
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How you feel about the modern, multitouch tablet depends a lot on what you think Steve Jobs and company set out to do with the iPad back in 2010. If you believe he was out to make a bigger smartphone or to entirely replace the Mac and PC, you're wrong.
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Hope is the magic carpet that transports us from the present moment into the realm of infinite possibilities.
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I think that the best training a top manager can be engaged in is management by example.
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In accordance with the prarabdha of each, the One whose function it is to ordain makes each to act. What will not happen will never happen, whatever effort one may put forth. And what will happen will not fail to happen, however much one may seek to prevent it. This is certain. The part of wisdom therefore is to stay quiet.
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Me seemes the world is runne quite out of square, From the first point of his appointed sourse, And being once amisse growes daily wourse and wourse.
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'I think that I will not answer that question,' he said at last. 'I would create as many false images as there were ears to hear me.''Half as many,' Clissum pointed out delicately.
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Sympathy is the surest destruction of selfishness. Children, like the grown person, grow the better for participation in the sufferings where their own only share is pity.
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There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
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I’m fed up with everyone being lied to just because the administration thinks it’s in our best interests not to know all the facts.
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It's possible, in a poem or short story, to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language, and to endow those things—a chair, a window curtain, a fork, a stone, a woman's earring—with immense, even startling power.
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’You know your Shelley, Bertie!’‘Oh, am I?’
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I don't think closeted homosexual morticians have the market cornered on self-loathing or sense of shame.
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If one of my players ever wants to hit me, he better do it really hard because otherwise, I'll find a rock, a stick, or a piece of wood - and believe me, it's gonna be a brawl.
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The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain. When I'm inspired, I get excited because I can't wait to see what I'll come up with next. Find out who you are and do it on purpose.
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I find it to be the ultimate backhanded compliment when you are compared against yourself.
