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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I've toured the U.S. every single year and I've put a record out every single year whether it was on a major label or not; that doesn't make any difference to me.
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I liked his richness of feeling. I don't know how else to describe it. No matter what he was doing, he felt it. He just seemed so open.
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Love is the soul of the world, though its body bleeds, and we must learn to bleed with it. Love is also the seed and milk and the fruit of the world, though we can partake of it in greed or reverence. We are born, we eat, and learn, and die. We leave a tracery of messages in the lives of others, a little shifting of the soil, a stone moved from here to there, a word uttered, a song, a poem left behind. I was here, each of these declare. I was here.
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Why don't you talk, and go straight, and let all be well?
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You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot help small men by tearing down big men. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot lift the wage-earner by pulling down the wage-payer. You cannot help the poor man by destroying the rich. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending
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I find it to be the ultimate backhanded compliment when you are compared against yourself.
