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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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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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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Searching through the fragments of my dream shattered sleepI wonder if the years have closed her mindI guess it must be wanderlust or trying to get freeFrom the good old faithful feeling we once knewCarefree highway, let me slip away on youCarefree highway you seen better days..
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Nothing lulls and inebriates like money; when you have a lot, the world seems a better place than it actually is.
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My ideal weight is 205, actually.
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My parents were journalists and friends with writers, artists, and just a really interesting assortment of people, so I was exposed to all lifestyles from a young age.
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What happens when children reach puberty earlier and adulthood later? The answer is: a good deal of teenage weirdness.
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We must never forget that Christ did not suffer just during His three years of public ministry or the last few days of His life when He was crucified. No, He suffered throughout His life on earth. He who was without sin lived daily with the corruption and sinfulness of lost humanity.
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I find it to be the ultimate backhanded compliment when you are compared against yourself.
