Bernie Taupin Quotes

My Mother set me on the right track, Marty Robbins made me want to write songs, and Jesus Christ did the rest.

Bernie Taupin

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• I think, No. 1, I still have a long way to go.

  

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• There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.

  

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• You need to find the power within to make [things] happen for yourself. When you realize this, you are unstoppable.

  

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• The one-cylinder ward is one in which the bishop handles all the problems, makes all the decisions, follows through on all the assignments, and faces every challenge. Then, like any other overworked cylinder, he starts to sputter and behave erratically. Eventually, he burns out altogether.

  

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• I think it would be best for us to start Mark.

  

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• The real test of a saint is not one's willingness to preach the gospel, but one's willingness to do something like washing the disciples' feet - that is, being willing to do those things that seem unimportant in human estimation but count as everything to God.

  

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• Are you learning to say things after listening to God, or are you saying things and trying to make God's word fit in?

  

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• I love fun movies that also have something to say. They tend to stay with me, always.

  

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• Especially for younger generations - this was their Ray Robinson - I think it came as a great shock.

  

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• I don't want to create controversy; I just have an opinion on things, and there is nothing wrong with stating your opinion if you are asked. Everyone wants that right, and because you are famous doesn't mean you have less of a right.

  

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• I think today we're setting a constitutional marker and also a constitutional check on presidential power because you can't allow the president to move forward with unfettered fashion.

  

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• In the last resort, a love of God without love of humanity is no love at all.

  

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• The Bible does not thrill; the Bible nourishes. Give time to the reading of the Bible and the recreating effect is as real as that of fresh air physically.

  

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• Our yesterdays present irreparable things to us; it is true that we have lost opportunities which will never return, but God can transform this destructive anxiety into a constructive thoughtfulness for the future. Let the past sleep, but let it sleep on the bosom of Christ. Leave the Irreparable Past in His hands, and step out into the Irresistible Future with Him.

  

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• All interpretations made by a scientist are hypotheses, and all hypotheses are tentative. They must forever be tested and they must be revised if found to be unsatisfactory. Hence, a change of mind in a scientist, and particularly in a great scientist, is not only not a sign of weakness but rather evidence for continuing attention to the respective problem and an ability to test the hypothesis again and again.

  

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• Let the consequences of your obedience be left up to God.

  

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• Speak, Lord”; make time to listen. Chastening is more than a means of discipline, it is meant to get me to the place of saying, “Speak, Lord.”

  

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• Sometimes I can sit at my computer and find a cool sound, or a new synth patch, and get super-inspired by that and make a track based on that sound. But the piano is where I find the inspiration and come up with the melody.

  

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• I admit that I deserve death and hell, what of it? For I know One who suffered and made satisfaction on my behalf. His name is Jesus Christ, Son of God, and where He is there I shall be also!

  

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• My Mother set me on the right track, Marty Robbins made me want to write songs, and Jesus Christ did the rest.

  

  Bernie Taupin
  • Track
  • Jesus Christ
  • My Mother