Elvis Costello Quotes

Very similar experience happened last year when we released this album, North. It was on Deutsche Grammophon, it was very, very honest. It was the most honest record I've ever written.

Elvis Costello

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There had to be something else out there that would help me change. I wanted to live.

John Sweeney

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It seems natural to me that as a writer, you should have some kind of, you know, there should be some kind of projection that you actually have influenced people who are closest to you.

Amiri Baraka

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I think business, government and unions have to work together, and the common enemies to the global economy. We're being beaten by the global economy, and we've got to unite together to win.

Stephen Pagliuca

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'Competent counsel' ought to require more than a human being with a law license and a pulse.

Tom Price

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No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.

Miguel de Cervantes

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As a kid, I watched 'Bugs Bunny' cartoons, and for some reason Pepe Le Pew, the indomitable French skunk pursuing his would-be kitty paramour, left his mark on me: became an instant emblem of odoriferous hubris, hedonistic bad behavior. He was an entry-level Dominique Strauss-Kahn, a rookie Marquis de Sade.

Michael Paterniti

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Mad Season changed my life in a million different ways.

Mike McCready

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The more the marbles wastes, the more the statue grows.

Michelangelo

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The United Nations is a place for prostitution under the feet of Americans.

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

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The more one reads poetry, the less tolerant one becomes of any sort of verbosity, be that in political or philosophical discourse, be that in history, social studies or the art of fiction.

Joseph Brodsky

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Maybe it's because I was too much reality, but I'm not interested in seeing too much reality anymore. I'd rather watch a Dean Martin concert and let the world go by.

Dennis Farina

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Some books are well-received with critics; other books sell.

Colson Whitehead

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