Joe Elliott Quotes

People always ask me how we got the name Def Leppard. Actually, it came from a poster I had made which depicted a rather strange-looking jungle cat with a hearing horn at his ear. I called him the deaf leopard. The guys in the band loved the poster, and after a bit of work, we decided to call ourselves Def Leppard. The name is funny, but it has strength.

Joe Elliott Def Leppard

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I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.

O. J. Simpson
- Mother
- Death
- Dad
She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.

Gail Parent
- Women
- Live
- She
It's funny to think that when you get done with an acting job, you're considered unemployed. There are definitely times when those checks don't last forever. I went to college at a private school, and I racked up quite a bit of debt. I was very slow to pay them back.

Rami Malek
- Up
- School
- Done
Storms and darkness scared me, but somehow it encouraged me to learn about nature and I think nothing's dark, dark is beautiful too.

Bai Ling
- Nature
- Beautiful
- Me
Played tennis for years. But you can't improve at tennis after you're 50. You get to be in your 40s, and suddenly you're a doubles player.

Jack Nicholson
- You
- Player
- Tennis
If we cling to the institution of Islam, then we tend to defend it against whatever we see as a danger to it, so because of this we see now that many people are defending states, defending territories, defending everything institutional in the belief that they defend Islam.

Abdurrahman Wahid
- People
- Belief
- Islam