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I know that when I make a record like The Delivery Man as a contrast to even Il Sogno, this is going to reach a wider audience, because it communicates in that very direct way. ↗

— Elvis Costello

#because #communicates #contrast #delivery #direct

You have to face the fact that I have no reputation as a composer; I have my reputation as a songwriter and a performer-and that opportunity came this summer, when I was invited to perform at the Lincoln Centre festival in New York... three nights. ↗

— Elvis Costello

#centre #composer #face #fact #festival

I haven't lived a perfect life. I have regrets. But that's from a lifetime of taking chances, making decisions, and trying not to be frozen. The only thing that I can do with my regrets is understand them. ↗

— Kevin Costner

#decisions #frozen #haven #i #i can

I want to live forever, and I know I won't. I'm not afraid of dying. I'm only afraid of one thing: not being able to raise my kids. ↗

— Kevin Costner

#afraid #being #dying #forever #i

Money isn't a major motivating force in my life. Nor is my profession. There are other things that I care more about than being an actor. ↗

— Kevin Costner

#actor #being #care #force #i

Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn't do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up. ↗

— Bette Davis

#advantage #attractive #become #looking #make-up

But a progressive policy needs more than just a bigger break with the economic and moral assumptions of the past 30 years. It needs a return to the conviction that economic growth and the affluence it brings is a means and not an end. The end is what it does to the lives, life-chances and hopes of people. Look at London. Of course it matters to all of us that London's economy flourishes. But the test of the enormous wealth generated in patches of the capital is not that it contributed 20%-30% to Britain's GDP but how it affects the lives of the millions who live and work there. What kind of lives are available to them? Can they afford to live there? If they can't, it is not compensation that London is also a paradise for the ultra-rich. Can they get decently paid jobs or jobs at all? If they can't, don't brag about all those Michelin-starred restaurants and their self-dramatising chefs. Or schooling for children? Inadequate schools are not offset by the fact that London universities could field a football team of Nobel prize winners. ↗

— Eric J. Hobsbawm

#capitalism #economics #education #london #morality

I was sucked into this vortex of a very conservative upbringing. ↗

— Kevin Costner

#i #into #sucked #upbringing #very

Olympism seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of a good example and respect for universal fundamental ethical principles. ↗

— Pierre de Coubertin

#create #educational #effort #ethical #example

For each individual, sport is a possible source for inner improvement. ↗

— Pierre de Coubertin

#improvement #individual #inner #possible #source