Elton John Quotes
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The secret of my success with Geraldine is that she's not a putdown of women. She's smart, she's trustful, she's loyal, she's sassy.
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It's simply untrue that religion provides the only framework for a universal morality.
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A lifetime of low calories has come naturally to the longest-lived people in the world... in the Japanese archipelago of Okinawa.
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Everything begins with an idea.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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I believe in the free enterprise system.
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Fashion is inspired by youth and nostalgia and draws inspiration from the best of the past.
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Elvis and I were very good friends. We were such good friends that, on the day that he passed, I was the first one his father called, to let me know what had happened.
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Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
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With Nine Inch Nails, it's all Trent Reznor. So when we get a new record from Nine Inch Nails, it depends on what side of the bed Trent's waking up on and what he's been eating lately and what he's been into. Because he's preparing the whole meal.
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I am a very selfish person.
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It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.
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My paternal grandfather was a failed novelist. He stacked boxes of rejected manuscripts in a closet.
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We are very serious about imposing weapons restrictions on the PFLP and other Palestinian groups operating from their camps in Lebanon.
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Being outside is a loose theme on 'Paracosm.' Acoustic-sounding instruments have that warmth to them that is really important to communicate. It was really important for me to tell a story – my favorite records have a narrative feel.
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Life is tragic comedy, in a way. There is humor.
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Some of those stories in local newspapers are just as dull and boring as the stories that I get from on-line services, which are basically sort of straight news.
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Women are complicated. We all know that.
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The information weapon, of course, is used in critical moments, and war is always a critical moment.
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There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting.
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The ideal woman which is in every man's mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand. The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement. Remember, all Tolstoy ever said to describe Anna Karenina was that she was beautiful and could see in the dark like a cat. Every man has a different idea of what's beautiful, and it's best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.
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Make the workmanship surpass the materials.
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A book sometimes seems to impose a through-line to life that real life doesn't actually have.
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You and your oven are capable of great things,Remember, no two ovens are the same.
