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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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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I look up to Rihanna and Rita Ora. They obviously wear a lot of gold jewelry and have this urban feel to them.
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In fact I try to spend at least one, if not two days without ever leaving my room. Because if I didn't, when would I recharge my batteries?
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Klaus from the Teddybears, Bloodshy and Avant and Mike Snow, they've done lots of Britney Spears production. They went backwards from production to being in a band, which might be cool. I might do that, too, one day.
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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed.
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Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great.
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'Clash Of The Titans' is one of the biggest movies I've done; it was certainly the most effects I've worked with.
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You and your oven are capable of great things,Remember, no two ovens are the same.
