Elton John Quotes

When Little Richard used to stand up and play it was just fabulous, and Liberace had the candlesticks and the rings and the gift of the gab. The piano's is the most ungainly rock' n' roll instrument of all time but those two people transcended it, as did Jerry Lee Lewis.

Elton John

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It's true that eviction affects the young and the old, the sick and the able-bodied. It affects white folks and black folks and Hispanic folks and immigrants. If you spend time in housing court, you see a really diverse array of folks there.

Matthew Desmond

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When it comes to video and pretty much everything else, the more personalized the content, the higher the chances of conversion.

John Rampton

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I grew up really being a comic book geek, and that was a really big part of my childhood.

Rob Van Dam

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I nearly died of double bronchial pneumonia at the age of five.

Roger Moore

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I am the product of hustlers who taught me how to do it. They gave me a hustler's ambition. Not a bad thing to get from your parents. But hustling only gets you so far. You have to trust yourself. And you have to be ready to fall on your face and be okay when it happens.

Jay Pharoah

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It's not that prison makes you shed your abstract notions. On the contrary, it pares them down to their most succinct articulations. Prison is, indeed, a translation of your metaphysics, ethics, sense of history and whatnot into the compact terms of your daily deportment.

Joseph Brodsky

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People seem to think I'm Satan.

Dominic West

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Higher education is one of few areas where this country competes with the rest of the world and wins. The best of American higher education outstrips any in the world. Look where the rest of the world goes for higher education, for graduate degrees. They come here.

Donna Shalala

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One may not regard the world as a sort of metaphysical brothel for emotions.

Arthur Koestler

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In those days I was terrible at athletics and never made a team, but quite easily led my class in academics.

William Standish Knowles

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It's important to face your fears in life. Whatever they may be. Makes us grow. Blessed to be alive.

Scott Eastwood

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The more secrets and twists in a character, the better.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

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