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Well, I've had a lot of different experiences in music over the years. And not everything you do can satisfy everybody's idealised version of you. ↗

— Elvis Costello

#everybody #everything #experiences #had #i

In addition to the clean coal provisions, the energy conference agreement contains provisions instrumental in helping increase conservation and lowering consumption. ↗

— Jerry Costello

#agreement #clean #coal #conference #conservation

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

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

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 believe people who go into politics want to do the right thing. And then they hit a big wall of re-election and the pettiness of politics. In the end, politics gets in the way of the business of people. ↗

— Kevin Costner

#big #business #do the right thing #end #gets

After two years of fighting, government shutdowns and little to no agreement on anything except welfare reform in 1996, President Clinton was re-elected and decided it was time for compromise. ↗

— Ari Fleischer

#agreement #anything #clinton #compromise #decided

It's pretty refreshing to be in a situation where the spotlight is on someone else. ↗

— Marion Cotillard

#pretty #refreshing #situation #someone #spotlight

When I was little, there were so many people in my house. Everyone was enjoying themselves, rehearsing, having fun. It was like a playground. ↗

— Marion Cotillard

#everyone #fun #having #having fun #house

The more unique your film is and unusual it is and difficult it is, the harder it is to get it financed. That's why a lot of good filmmakers are doing television. They do HBO movies. ↗

— David Cronenberg

#doing #film #filmmakers #financed #get