Elton John Quotes

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• We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Think
  • Reality
  • Self-Love

• If large numbers of people believe they have no shot at a better life in the future, they will work less hard and generate fewer new ideas and businesses. The economy, as a whole, will be poorer.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• I try and take the commonplace - and some of it is writ large, like death - take the commonplace and make it universally resonant, revelatory, and beautiful at the same time.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Time
  • Death
  • Beautiful

• I believe that movies are fast becoming antique and dinosauric as a medium. Film is a medium for the over-40s and television has gone the same way. If you're going to look towards the new generation, then of course you're going to have to be a lot more random, spontaneous, irreverent and provocative with your programming.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • Believe
  • Same
  • Generation

• I was unbelievably lucky.

  

  Wendy Hiller
  • Lucky
  • Unbelievably

• I'm a singer and working on my second album. I write and produce. There is so much more that satisfies me. So there's not just this one ambition to become an American movie star. Because I will never become an American movie star.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Movie
  • Working
  • Ambition

• I tried to play rugby but was never very good.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Good
  • Never
  • Rugby

• My dad's one of the funniest men in the world. I grew up with him making me laugh so much I'd beg him to stop.

  

  Rafe Spall
  • Up
  • World
  • Men

• I have great stories. I am going to write a book.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Great
  • Book
  • Stories

• The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
  • Life
  • Time
  • Real

• The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true.

  

  Frances Farmer
  • School
  • True
  • Pretty

• If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you're going to die when you're suffering.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Country
  • Die
  • Suffering

• All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

  

  Walt Disney
  • True
  • Courage
  • Dreams

• I think the colleges should be free to give athletes less than a full scholarship, no scholarship and more than a scholarship. And the athletes should be free to bargain.

  

  Taylor Branch
  • Think
  • Free
  • Less

• Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Perfect

• I have a lot of friends and fans in Canada and as a matter of fact I met a fan from there that came down to my office. It was nice and we took pictures and had a nice talk.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Friends
  • Nice
  • Down

• I went to Iraq in 2004 because I believe in doing my duty, not because I agreed with the war.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Believe
  • War
  • Doing

• I think it's probably a good lesson for other people to follow - to not always make the decision that's popular for others, but to do what you feel like is the right thing to do.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • People
  • Good
  • Decision

• When half the people believe one thing, and the other half another, it is usually safe to accept either opinion. The Democrats are as good as the Republicans, and the Catholics as good as the Protestants.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • People
  • Good
  • Believe

• There's also a lot of gritty Americana type of bands. I actually have a lot of Britpop on my iPod, too.

  

  Jeff Vandermeer

• When I moved to New York, I felt very strong emotionally and mentally. Aside from touring, I'd spent a couple of years alone and because of that, I was able to go out in the world again.

  

  Marketa Irglova
  • World
  • Strong
  • Alone

• I can be a little acerbic.

  

  Mary McCormack

• Disaster, to me, means in some big or small way, things going wrong. And that's obviously a matter of perception, right? Let's say your puppy chewed up all the shoes in your house. She probably had a fine time doing that. In her mind, a red letter day, the highlight of her puppy life.

  

  Amy Gerstler
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• Welcome to the world of bullshit, my dear. You have arrived.

  

  Elton John
  • World