Elton John Quotes

That record she did with Peter Gabriel saved my life. That record helped me get sober. So she played a big part in my actual downfall and kind of 'rebirth'' as it were. That record helped me so much. I never told her that, but it did.

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• The main thing is that it's nice to see these young people - 9 to 14 years old - take the opportunity to get more involved in their health and fitness. We need more kids to be more active.

  

  Rafer Johnson
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• I think that black people, to a degree, need to have a certain level of dexterity. If we want to be at the highest level of whatever our field is, we have to be able to navigate both worlds. We all just know that you gotta be able to put that suit on and have a conversation with people that don't look like you or your family.

  

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• The trouble is that, while my parents were great when they were apart, they were terrible together.

  

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• When I graduated from university I tried to buy a beeper, and it cost me $250. My pay at the time was $10 a month.

  

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• The electroencephalogram represents a continuous curve with continuous oscillations in which... one can distinguish larger first order waves with an average duration of 90 milliseconds and smaller second order waves of an average duration of 35 milliseconds.

  

  Hans Berger
  • First
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• I'm pretty much a thrift shop gal. Flea markets on Sundays.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
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• In the end, we know what makes us happy. We also know what makes us unhappy. That's the irony. We know and yet we still mess it up. That's part of the human condition, no, and why we need to work on it.

  

  Harlan Coben
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• I was approached in Texas to be a model a few times. One of my first jobs was the cover of a CD.

  

  Candace Kita
  • Model
  • First
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• In the Senate, you can become one of the nation's leading voices on the issues.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • You
  • Nation
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• LeBron James can get a shot off under any and all circumstances and he makes them.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Circumstances
  • Shot
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• And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.

  

  Hans Kung
  • People
  • God
  • Community

• If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Life
  • Purpose
  • Vision

• If you like a wine that you drink, now with your phone, it's so easy. Just take a picture of the label. You learn about it. You learn where it comes from and what the soil is like and why you like it. And that'll lead you to another wine.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Why
  • Picture
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• I have 10 children. I've got my eighth grandchild in the oven with Kimberly. I have all these wonderful kids.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
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• But I have fun with the fright, work with it. You have to - that's your timing, that beat of excitement. And when I go on stage, it's just like taking a step into heaven. Poof, you know? Poof - and there I am.

  

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• I have no guitar technique.

  

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• I got the idea that to write books would be the best way to spend a life. I never thought of anything else that seemed like half as much fun, although in my next life I would like to be an architect, too, so I can have an easier time restoring houses.

  

  Frances Mayes
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• Usually, someone who's in a show gets me a ticket. I feel cornered. I can't walk out if I don't like it.

  

  Uta Hagen
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• Like other men, I have sought honours and preferment, and often have obtained them beyond my wishes or hopes. Yet never have I found in them that content which I had figured beforehand in my mind. A strong reason, if we well consider it, why we should disencumber ourselves of vain desires.

  

  Francesco Guicciardini
  • Men
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• Stiletto, I look at it more as an attitude as opposed to a high-heeled shoe.

  

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  • High
  • Attitude

• When I was growing up and somebody like Robert De Niro had a movie come out, it was a cultural event. Because he had such a confidence and a single mission that was so intimate.

  

  Sean Penn
  • Movie
  • Confidence
  • Growing Up

• I like jazz, rock n' roll, some hip hop - I can't think of any music I don't like.

  

  B. B. King
  • Music
  • Rock
  • Jazz

• My life hasn't been conventional and it hasn't been linear. I've had to make it up as I've gone along, which has taught me a lot. If you don't accept the obvious options that are laid out for you, it's up to you to work out where you're going and to create your own specific rules and goals.

  

  Mary Beth Patterson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Work

• That record she did with Peter Gabriel saved my life. That record helped me get sober. So she played a big part in my actual downfall and kind of 'rebirth'' as it were. That record helped me so much. I never told her that, but it did.

  

  Elton John
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