Bernie Taupin Quotes

Lincolnshire is the Idaho of England. You were either going to drive a tractor for the rest of your life or head for the city to work in a factory.

Bernie Taupin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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If you're doing what you love, and people can see that and relate to it, that's the most important thing.

Megan Nicole

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Oscar Wilde turned the world upside down and was able to laugh at it, and hopefully by the time I'm 120 and worn out, that's what I will achieve. I love being alive so much.

John Lydon

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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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An alcoholic father, poverty, my own juvenile diabetes, the limited English my parents spoke - although my mother has become completely bilingual since. All these things intrude on what most people think of as happiness.

Sonia Sotomayor

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Trump wants to be the first American tsar. With his hero worship of Putin, his admiration for the apparent omnipotence of the Kremlin, schoolboyish crush on Putin's gangster swagger and his contempt for democracy, Trump wants to rule with his family, taking decisions purely because he's right about everything like a tsar.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

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Be a doer and not a critic.

Tony Blair

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One way that whites protect their positions when challenged on race is to invoke the discourse of self-defense. Through this discourse, whites characterize themselves as victimized, slammed, blamed, and attacked.

Robin DiAngelo

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At 17, I went away to Pau in the south of France for a few months to study domestic science - including cleaning windows with newspaper and water - while living with a Catholic family with 10 children.

Mary Berry

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The American empire will not disappear... because America does not have an empire.

Michael Mandelbaum

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WikiLeaks, God bless them, will save lives as a result of their actions.

Michael Moore

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I think my real influences are out of my control, which are the things that entered my brain when I was a kid growing up.

Mitski

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I love acting. It's way different from singing, but I like really put my ten thousand hours in to be really good. I want to be a premier actor. I want Oscars, I want recognition, and I want to move people just as much as I move people with my music, the same with my acting.

Luke James

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