Bernie Taupin Quotes

My mother's father taught English literature. When I was about ten or eleven, I could recite Macaulay's 'Lays of Ancient Rome.' While other kids were playing pedestrian war games, I'd be Horatius keeping the bridge.

Bernie Taupin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: May 22, 1950

Topics

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I don't believe that you can judge the worth of a movie in the atmosphere in which it comes out the first time. There's just so many reasons why some pictures don't catch on.

Joe Dante

TimeBelieveJudgeWorthYouWhy

That luxury, ossified Los Angeles world isn't good for the soul.

Joe Wright

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I think sometimes I intimidate people. I've been told that. But I feel I'm the least intimidating person possible.

Andie MacDowell

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The department store was a product of the 19th century and became a very important institution as America went into the 20th century. It provided show places in developing towns like Terre Haute, Sacramento, and Dallas.

Stanley Marcus

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My life is extravagant.

Trudie Styler

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Here's how much I know about hockey. Mike Royko and I were in a tiny bar one winter night, and the radio kept reporting goals by the Blackhawks. I mentioned how frequently the team was scoring. 'You're listening to the highlights,' Royko observed.

Roger Ebert

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We can today open wide the history of their administrations and point with pride to every act, and challenge the world to point out a single act stained with injustice to the North, or with partiality to their own section.

Robert Toombs

TodayHistoryChallengeWorldPride

My view on politics is much more grassroots oriented; it's not old boy network oriented, so I tend to, you know, come at it a little bit stronger, a little bit more street-wise, if you will. That's rubbed some feathers the wrong way.

Michael Steele

PoliticsViewStrongerYouWrong

It's difficult to change things in a positive way.

Lizzie Armitstead

PositiveChangeWayDifficultThings

What concerns me, is the general social tendency to enforce a level, above which nothing rises and stands out.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

MeNothingOutSocialLevelAbove

Sometimes... I'll just stand there... in the white room... and say stuff. I'm creating high-quality content.

Poppy

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With 'Hollow Circus,' I used a family story that haunted me as a kid, one of those anecdotes about a family member that would rarely be spoken of in front of the children.

Peter Milligan

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