David Howell Evans (The Edge) Quotes

Bono is chairman and founding member of Over-Achievers Anonymous. He has an irrepressible drive to be great. He wants to achieve it all, which actually makes him very vulnerable.

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• My favorite thing about being famous... it's not really as big of a deal as everybody says it is. Being on the road is tough, doing interviews, and all the stuff. It's still pretty tough.

  

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• I have an iPod, but I put my music in it from my CDs, and then I have that CD in my library.

  

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• Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.

  

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• It is not easy to get parts in mainstream films for most people of color. Hollywood and British writers are not writing parts for us, or the directors are not interested in casting us in parts that are color-blind.

  

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• It's unresolved conflict in my life that I have a lovely family and a risky job.

  

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• I taught a lot of art history, especially Chinese, Japanese, and Indian. But the painting classes came back. The nudes came back. Not so much the still lifes. So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.

  

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• The biggest misconception about me is the bad-boy image that everyone stuck me into due to my tattoos, drug days and the constant changes I make with my hair color.

  

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• To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.

  

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• I have suffered as much as Martin Luther King. Only I didn't get the bullet. And I would have taken the bullet if I could have.

  

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• When I was 3 or 4, I seemed to be bursting with music. They played Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie, Frank Sinatra in the house, so I learned my vocabulary from song lyrics - I was literally singing before I was talking.

  

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• I fell from the sky. I'm a parachutist, and I missed my mark.

  

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• You can be arrested and not charged. You can be arrested and have no right to counsel.

  

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• I'm a person who likes these sort of movies... sad but moving 'art movies' that normally are at a festival and then they go to a small art house theater and disappear.

  

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• No doubt about it. For every player. Thursday nights are very tough for us because it is a short turnaround.

  

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• I've always worked with a team of actors and filmmakers ever since I was a kid in Michigan making Super-8 movies.

  

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• It's not just that humiliating people, of any age, is a nasty and disrespectful way of treating them. It's that humiliation, like other forms of punishment, is counterproducti ve. 'Doing to' strategies - as opposed to those that might be described as 'working with' - can never achieve any result beyond temporary compliance, and it does so at a disturbing cost.

  

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• To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect

  

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• ...our progenitors, the kings of England, have before these times been lords of the English sea on every side...and it would very much grieve us if in this kind of defence our royal honour should be lost.

  

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• He's the coach, ... Everybody gets upset when they come out of the game, but there's no need to show frustration.

  

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• Bono is chairman and founding member of Over-Achievers Anonymous. He has an irrepressible drive to be great. He wants to achieve it all, which actually makes him very vulnerable.

  

  David Howell Evans U2
  • Achieve
  • Drive
  • Member