Elton John Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• George W. Bush was passionate about AIDS. And we had a 10-minute talk at the interval of a concert at the Kennedy Center about AIDS. And I was astonished about how well-informed he was and his commitment to AIDS. And so it's the typical thing of don't judge a book by its cover until you have read the book.

  Elton John

  Book, Commitment, Judging

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I love the idea of the teachings of Jesus Christ and the beautiful stories about it, which I loved in Sunday school and I collected all the little stickers and put them in my book. But the reality is that organised religion doesn't seem to work. It turns people into hateful lemmings and it's not really compassionate.

  Elton John

  Beautiful, Jesus, Book

  "When Elton met Jake". Interview with Jake Shears, www.theguardian.com. August 21, 2006.

• We can't keep thinking of gay people as being ostracised; we can't keep thinking of Muslim people as being [ostracised] because of the fundamentalism that occurs in Islam. Muslim people have to do something about speaking up about it. We can't judge a book by its cover.

  Elton John

  Book, Gay, Thinking

  "When Elton met Jake". Interview with Jake Shears, www.theguardian.com. November 12, 2006.

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