Elvis Costello Quotes

My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant.

Elvis Costello

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I am consciously trying not to make it sound Celtic or African.

Joanna Newsom

I AmTryingSoundMakeAfricanAm

I'm a soccer dad at heart. I want five kids, and I want to get married. I want to coach Little League.

Mekhi Phifer

HeartSoccerWantCoachLittleGet

If you really think everything in your life, everything that you benefit from comes from socially aware, like-minded, good-hearted people, then you're out of your mind. If you want only those people to have good jobs, we would have to learn how to adjust very quickly without those people. Maybe I'm cynical, but I truly believe that.

Michael Che

LifeGoodPeopleMindBelieveThink

Being an actor requires a lot of self-analysis and reflection. The better you know who you are, the better you are at becoming another person.

Mia Goth

ReflectionBetterYouPersonKnow

The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.

Marya Mannes

FutureRevengeEndEarthLiving

When I moved to New York City from Texas at 22, amateur hour was over. As a newly grown-up person, I vowed I would wear dresses and skirts, wool trousers occasionally, and heels always.

Mary H.K. Choi

New YorkCityTexasPersonNewOver

Great novels are maps of complication, leading nowhere in particular, taking stances only provisionally and obliquely, happy to be tangled and to lack as many answers as the people they seek to depict.

Michelle Dean

GreatHappyPeopleAnswersNowhere

Just like everyone else, I'm not perfect; I go through challenges as well.

Jazz Jennings

ChallengesNot PerfectPerfectGo

There is no royal road to anything, one thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures.

Josiah Gilbert Holland

TimeRoadFastRoyalAnything

It's a pretty intuitive process, picking the projects that I want to get involved with.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

ProcessWantPrettyInvolvedGet

Phish has never had anything to do with any trends at all in America.

Jon Fishman

AmericaNeverTrendsAnythingAny

Television has power.

Cheo Hodari Coker

PowerTelevision

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