Elton John Quotes
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I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.
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I love creative people.
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My 'Big Bang Theory' costar Johnny Galecki went off the grid. He bought a huge ranch and goes there every weekend. He keeps telling me to do the same thing, but I don't know if I'm that committed. The Valley is as far off the grid as I'm going to go.
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Urban residents, most of them middle class, have a much better sense of their environmental rights, and they're willing to take to the streets.
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The first calculators tended to sell for $400 or $500. Today, you can get a pretty good one for 4 or $5.
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I'm never, like I say, I'm never happy, I'm never satisfied, it's never good enough.
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My responsibility is to ensure that the position of the Department of Justice is not only legally defensible, but is informed by our best view of what the law is after consideration of all the facts.
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When you're the best, you only want to surround yourself with the best.
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The music field was the first to break down racial barriers, because in order to play together, you have to love the people you are playing with, and if you have any racial inhibitions, you wouldn't be able to do that.
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I'm not a good crime writer. I'm not good with plots... so I have to do something else.
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I like 'Bewitched' off the first album because it's one of the happiest songs I've ever written and, as any writer will tell you, happy songs are a million times more difficult to write than sad songs.
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It's wonderful to work with someone with mentor status.
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All have used the economic opportunity of a new arena project to transform their cities into the future.
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A great piece of literature does not try to coerce you to believe it or agree with it. A great piece of literature simply is. It is a vehicle of truth, but it is not a blueprint, and we tend to confuse the two.
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The other seeming oddity of its role as a national symbol is that it has achieved this status for Indians in spite of it being Islamic.
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'That you are regularly facing challenges does not make you an unbeliever. Don’t measure your Christian life by your situation.'
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I never thought too highly of anyone foolish enough to take on the nickname of a life-destroying dope product and promote such family-destroying conduct on stage.
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'He’s a fair man.'I looked at him, startled.'I said fair,' he repeated. 'Not likable.'I kept quiet. His father wasn’t the monster he could have been with the power he held over his slaves. He wasn’t a monster at all. Just an ordinary man who sometimes did the monstrous things his society said were legal and proper.
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And other operators aren't so special syntactically, but weird in other ways, like 'scalar', and 'goto'.
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Religious apologists complain bitterly that atheists and secularists are aggressive and hostile in their criticism of them. I always say: look, when you guys were in charge, you didn't argue with us, you just burnt us at the stake. Now what we're doing is, we're presenting you with some arguments and some challenging questions, and you complain.
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I thought our seniors' focus and desire was excellent. They put it on the line today, but it just wasn't enough.
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I have a direct way of speaking. What I do is tend to lay out everything; I tend to tell people what I'm going to do and how I'm going to do it and what is success for us and what's not... without being too parochial about it, I think Aussies are more direct.
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He is Mr Piano Man, I am Miss Piano Man.