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Elvis Presley [1935-1977] American
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Musician, Singer


Elvis Aaron Presley was an American singer and actor. Regarded as one of the most significant cultural icons of the 20th century, he is often referred to as "the King of Rock and Roll", or simply, "the King".

Movies, Music, Best, Business, God, Marriage, Money, Nature, Time, Truth



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I'm not trying to be sexy. It's just my way of expressing myself when I move around.
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The image is one thing and the human being is another. It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.
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Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away. Time, Truth
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Until we meet again, may God bless you as he has blessed me. God
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Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.
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I learned how important it is to entertain people and give them a reason to come and watch you play.
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When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream. Movies
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It's human nature to gripe, but I'm going ahead and doing the best I can. Best, Nature
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I never expected to be anybody important.
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I'll never feel comfortable taking a strong drink, and I'll never feel easy smoking a cigarette. I just don't think those things are right for me.
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Man, I really like Vegas.
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I think I have something tonight that's not quite correct for evening wear. Blue suede shoes.
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From the time I was a kid, I always knew something was going to happen to me. Didn't know exactly what.
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I don't think I'm bad for people. If I did think I was bad for people, I would go back to driving a truck, and I really mean this.
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Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.
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I have no use for bodyguards, but I have very specific use for two highly trained certified public accountants.
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Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's what happens to me. I can't help it.' Music
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Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.
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I did the Ed Sullivan show four times. I did the Steve Allen show. I did the Jackie Gleason show.
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Whatever I will become will be what God has chosen for me.
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I'm trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It's so easy to get turned.
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I like to sing ballads the way Eddie Fisher does and the way Perry Como does. But the way I'm singing now is what makes the money. Money
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I'd just like to be treated like a regular customer.
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The Lord can give, and the Lord can take away. I might be herding sheep next year.
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I'll never make it, it will never happen, because they're never going to hear me 'cause they're screaming all the time.
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People ask me where I got my singing style. I didn't copy my style from anybody.
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A live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and on stage. It's my favorite part of the business, live concerts. Business
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When I got outta High School I was driving a truck. I was just a poor boy from Memphis, Memphis.
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They put me on television. And the whole thing broke loose. It was wild, I tell ya for sure.
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Too much TV hurts movies. Movies
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The army teaches boys to think like men.
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I've tried to lead a straight, clean life, not set any kind of a bad example.
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Those people in New York are not gonna change me none.
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The next thing I knew, I was out of the service and making movies again. My first picture was called, GI Blues. I thought I was still in the army. Movies
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I like entertaining people. I really miss it.
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Since the beginning, it was just the same. The only difference, the crowds are bigger now.
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The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I'm doin' now, man, for more years than I know. I got it from them.
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I've been getting some bad publicity - but you got to expect that.
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I'm strictly for Stevenson. I don't dig the intellectual bit, but I'm telling you, man, he knows the most.
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I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to. Music
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I was training to be an electrician. I suppose I got wired the wrong way round somewhere along the line.
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When I get married, it'll be no secret. Marriage
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After a hard day of basic training, you could eat a rattlesnake.
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There are too many people that depend on me. I'm too obligated. I'm in too far to get out.
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I've never written a song in my life. It's all a big hoax.
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I'm no hillbilly singer.
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More than anything else, I want the folks back at home to think right of me.
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My movements, ma'am, are all leg movements. I don't do nothing with my body.
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I don't do any vulgar movements.
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I'm so nervous. I've always been nervous, ever since I was a kid.
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Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
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I was an overnight sensation.
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Just because I managed to do a little something, I don't want anyone back home to think I got the big head.
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Man, that record came out and was real big in Memphis. They started playing it, and it got real big. Don't know why-the lyrics had no meaning.
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Later on they send me to Hollywood. To make movies. It was all new to me. I was only 21 years old.
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I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production, just like most of my movies were.
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Those movies sure got me into a rut.
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I hope I didn't bore you too much with my life story.
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I'll stay in Memphis.
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I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend.
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I was an only child, and Mother was always right with me all my life. I used to get very angry at her when I was growing up-it's a natural thing.
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I miss my singing career very much.
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The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.
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That's why I hate to get started in these jam sessions. I'm always the last one to leave.
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I knew by heart all the dialogue of James Dean's films; I could watch Rebel Without a Cause a hundred times over.
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