Elvis Costello Quotes

Obviously the people that I admired, like the Beatles, were really into rock'n'roll, but it was already a little past rock'n'roll when I started listening and making my own choices about music.

Elvis Costello

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MusicPastPeopleListeningChoices

Al Gore, you've been a real inspiration. But a lot of other people who preach the global warming gospel aren't out to save the world. They're out to run it.

Jesse Ventura

PeopleWorldYouRunGlobal Warming

You write about experiences partly to understand what they mean, partly not to lose them to time. To oblivion. But there's always the danger of the opposite happening. Losing the memory of the experience itself to the memory of writing about it.

Sigrid Nunez

TimeExperienceLosingMemoryLose

Black filmmakers - I'm grateful for them.

Ruby Dee

GratefulBlackThemFilmmakers

When alien abductees recount to me their stories, I do not deny that they had a real experience.

Michael Shermer

ExperienceMeAlienRealStories

For most of my life, the U.S. was never anything more than vacation memories.

Mona Eltahawy

LifeMemoriesVacationMy LifeNever

The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only.

Joseph Wood Krutch

NatureSnowTimeWorldLonelyYou

I haven't gone home with anybody who tried to pick me up in a long time.

Jorja Fox

HomeTimeMeLongLong TimeGone

You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence.

William J. H. Boetcker

CharacterCourageManIndependence

In war, it feels like everything you're doing is more important because you're in the proximity of violence and death, and that proximity changes your relationship to America because it changes the way you see the world.

Phil Klay

RelationshipDeathWarWorldDoing

If all the economists in the world were laid end to end, it wouldn't be a bad thing.

Peter Lynch

WorldEndBadEconomistsWereThing

I love Salma Hayek; we've been friends for a really long time. I admire how she has come such a long way and always remained grounded and who she is. She never compromises to follow her vision, and she is loyal. Such qualities only mark the great stars.

Penelope Cruz

LoveStarsVisionGreatTimeLong

When you're in championships, it's never about what you do. It's always about what other people do.

Shaquille O'Neal

PeopleYouNeverAlwaysOtherAbout

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