Elvis Costello Quotes

There are many critics who have an idealised version of where my strengths lie.

Elvis Costello

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I'm really interested in how people feel out new friendships, and at the start of college, that's really important.

John Allison

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Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate. No other story has incarnated those themes more than the story of Jesus.

John Ortberg

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I am an affirmative action hire.

Anna Quindlen

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If you go back to the time of J.P. Morgan, the world of high finance was completely wholesale. The prestigious investment banks on Wall Street appealed exclusively to large corporations, governments, and to extremely wealthy individuals.

Ron Chernow

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My DVR, like, sees inside my soul, and inside my soul is a 65-year-old retired woman. So there's Food Network, HGTV and 'Golden Girls' reruns. And 'Roseanne.'

Ross Mathews

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If your goal is anything but profitability - if it's to be big, or to grow fast, or to become a technology leader - you'll hit problems.

Michael Porter

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There's nothing more frustrating than seeing a conductor say, 'Play softer,' as they're waving their hands in huge gestures.

Joshua Bell

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I don't need fighting. It's the cherry on top to this beautiful life I've been given.

Dominick Cruz

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Australia is a phenomenally beautiful country, and every time I go away and come back, it never ceases to amaze me.

David Wenham

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After graduating in the summer of 1980, I knew I wanted my life to count.

Donna Rice

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People pay to see movies with women looking beautiful, but I think there will be a place for me to play women looking my own age.

Debra Winger

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For a writer, and particularly a writer of my genre, which is the fantastical, I think that it's to my advantage to feel remote from and disconnected from the world of deal making.

Clive Barker

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