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" The worst thing you can do to a child, and I've seen it happen so many times, is the silver spoon. "
Elton John
Child
You
Worst
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" We were both very much the same. We were both very impulsive. We both loved life. We both loved shopping. We both had a love of clothes, obviously, because he was the designer that I kind of wore forever and ever. "
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" I never thought of myself as being handsome or good-looking or whatever. "
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" I am so in the past. I'm such a Luddite when it comes to making music. All I can do is write at the piano. "
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" I love places that have an incredible history. I love the Italian way of life. I love the food. I love the people. I love the attitudes of Italians. "
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" I am the most well-known homosexual in the world. "
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" I grew up at my grandmother's house and she had a beautiful garden. I used to hate mowing the lawn and weeding, which is what you do when you're a kid. "
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" I've always been dead set against festivals - really suspicious and wary. "
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" I used to get my money at the end of the week, buy my mum something, or buy a record, and that was it. "
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End
" It's just so wonderful to have someone in the house like a child to turn your attention to. It's not about you anymore, it's about this lovely little human being. "
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You
Someone
" The whole point of being in this business and being blessed and being successful is that you're able to do things for your friends or your family, which means that they can have something special in their lives, too. "
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Family
Friends
" I'd always lived with people - my family, or had people living with me, because I'd never liked being on my own. "
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Family
My Own
" I grew up conservative because my mum was a conservative, and when I finally realized what conservatives were, I changed my mind immediately. As children, we tend to copy our parents. "
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Mind
Parents
Copy
" I've never been jealous of anybody's success. I've been flummoxed by it because I don't understand it, but I'm not jealous of it. "
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Jealous
" There's a lot of hate in the world. "
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" Well, I'm a huge fan of Ryan Adams, who's from North Carolina. And he's beginning to break really quite big. "
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" If I was to say what I am, I'd be a Labour man. I like Tony Blair a lot, I think he's a good man. And in America I'd definitely be a Democrat; I'd never be a Republican. "
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" I was more ashamed that I couldn't work the washing machine than the fact that I was taking drugs. "
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" I rarely wear tennis shoes. I'm 5' 8', I hate being short. "
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" I love every minute of fatherhood, staying up all night, changing nappies, kids crying, I find it really funny and inspiring. It connects you to the world in a new way. "
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" Well, I've had my fair share in Britain of battling the tabloids. "
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