"I heard Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis, and that was it. I didn't ever want to be anything else. I just started banging away and semi-studied classical music at the Royal Academy of Music but sort of half-heartedly."

-- Elton John

#Half Quotes #Want Quotes #Littles Quotes

“I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts.”

Source : Comment on the Profumo affair, July 1963, in Anthony Sampson 'Macmillan' (1967) p. 243
“All the suspects have been arrested. police are looking for them”
“Strangely, nothing makes me feel tired, fatigued, at all. I've gone days and nights without sleep, and still the mind is in such a positive space it just doesn't make you feel fatigued.”
“We have a problem with radical Islamism and I actually think that we could work together with Russia against this enemy. They have a worse problem than America does.”
“We didn't really expect to achieve anything outside of the UK, and it just went crazy. It's just crazy that people know our music. We're just humbled by it.”
“I've become more confident as I have got older. I care less what others think.”

Source : "Helen McCrory: 'Most of the attention I get is from younger men'" by Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2013.
“A man may be a tough, concentrated, successful moneymaker and never contribute to his country anything more than a horrible example. A manager may be tough and practical, squeezing out, while the going is good, the last ounce of profit and dividend, and may leave behind him an exhausted industry and a legacy of industrial hatred. A tough manager may never look outside his own factory walls or be conscious of his partnership in a wider world. I often wonder what strange cud such men sit chewing when their working days are over, and the accumulating riches of the mind have eluded them.”
“how impossible it is not to laugh in some company, or to laugh in others.”

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