Quote by Elvis Costello
My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant. - Elvis Costell

My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant. – Elvis Costello

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Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid. – Oscar Wilde

The life-fate of the modern individual depends not only upon the family into which he was born or which he enters by marriage, but increasingly upon the corporation in which he spends the most alert hours of his best years. – C. Wright Mills

To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all. – Lyndon B. Johnson

When I was a little kid I thought I would grow up to be black and sing jazz in nightclubs. – Molly Ringwald

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