Elton John Quotes

And I talked to my doctor, and I must admit, you know, I'm sometimes quite renowned for my outbursts and I was just very frustrated, maybe a little frightened.

Elton John

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DoctorYouAdmitKnowSometimes

Rap and spoken word have reawakened the country to poetry in itself. Texting and Twitter encourage creative uses of casual language, in ways I have celebrated widely. But we've fallen behind on savoring the formal layer of our language.

John McWhorter

CreativePoetryLanguageCountryRap

I am so proud to be black. I am, nevertheless, tired of the oppression. We need to develop and support a cohesive black agenda. We need to do what leaders have suggested since slavery. We need to recognize that while we are not monolithic, there is power in embracing a common agenda.

Angela Rye

PowerI AmTiredSupportProudNeed

One of the most challenging things for me to do was to walk away from 'Black Panther.'

Amandla Stenberg

WalkMeBlackThingsAwayPanther

I never understood that if you sweat as much as I used to every night, you drain your body of salts. So I got very, very, seriously ill. I got to the stage where I was almost hospitalized with serious problems.

Roger Daltrey

NightProblemsYouBodyYour Body

With no faith, purely as a scientific experiment, I started meditating and watched if it changed my music. It did, but it didn't make it more mellow. It made it easier to get into the flow of creativity.

Rivers Cuomo

MusicFaithCreativityFlowMore

I heard during our label-searching that some labels hire statisticians instead of A&R people. They'll reach out to the bands that will statistically perform best monetarily instead of going out to shows and having an opinion on which music is good or bad.

Lucy Dacus

GoodMusicBestPeopleOpinionBad

The good in this world far outweighs the evil. Our common humanity transcends our differences, and our most effective response to terror is compassion, it's unity, and it's love.

Loretta Lynch

LoveGoodCompassionUnityEvilFar

Everybody gets through a phase where it's, 'Ah, if I could just sound just like Vince Gill.' Then you figure out that you have your own voice, whether you like it or not, and that's what you should stick with.

Chris Stapleton

VoiceYouSoundOutThroughOwn

I have been blessed to realize my dream of becoming an underwater photojournalist, but with that, I feel an obligation and sense of urgency to share what I have seen with others.

Brian Skerry

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Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.

William Morris

HomeBeautifulBelieveYouHouse

People follow proven formulas in any business.

Phoebe Cates

BusinessPeopleFollowAnyProven

My first year of university, I ran around and signed up for these clubs, and I noticed they were all drama clubs: really lame, artsy things.

Penelope Mitchell

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