David Howell Evans (The Edge) Quotes

You see, rock and roll isn't a career or hobby - it's a life force. It's something very essential.

David Howell Evans U2

• Rock And Roll
• Essential
• Hobby

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• The virtues of the blockchain is that it would be that it's peer-to-peer settlement - no centralized settlement, no manipulation... And most importantly, there's nothing to capture. It's consensus based. It's stateless.

  

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• I think all chefs who pursue great flavor have good ethics.

  

  Dan Barber
  • Good
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• I would ask my mother to show me how to walk - and she did show me. That's why I think it's funny when people say, 'Did so-and-so teach you how to walk?' And I always say, 'You must be talking about my mother, because it was my mother who taught me how to walk.'

  

  Naomi Campbell
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• The universe will put signposts in your life. You can either ignore them or embrace them. You can choose and wish for all the things you want, but the things that are coming to you, you will never be able to hide from and the things that you want so bad that are not supposed to be for you for whatever reason, they'll never come to you.

  

  Yul Vazquez
  • Life
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• Rich Swann is probably the only guy who's more charismatic among this whole bunch than me, and I think it showed in our match.

  

  T. J. Perkins
  • Think
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• I was into sports and swimming as a kid and didn't spend a whole lot of time sitting down. I was a gymnast.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Time
  • Sports
  • Swimming

• Every time we moved on, I joined a different class in a different school with different girls until, aged 13, my father had taken the decision to pull me out of school altogether. Everything I needed, he reasoned, could be found within the rich language of Shakespeare's plays at which, by then, I was something of an old hand.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Time
  • Different
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• The music I was making for people not to dance to was the one they were dancing to.

  

  Flume
  • People
  • Music
  • Dance

• The performances of my works in the last 10 years are probably equal to all the previous years put together. There are so many venues now and there is a completely new public for opera that's grown up outside of the traditional core opera public.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • Up
  • Together
  • Now

• The biological factors underlying race differences in sports have consequences for educational achievement, crime and sexual behavior.

  

  J. Philippe Rushton
  • Sports
  • Achievement

• My father always told me, 'Before you become a queen, you have to learn how to take care of your own things.' So I knew how to do all of it, but I had never really done it on a daily basis. So I was cleaning houses, and I started working restaurants.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Done
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• You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • You
  • Faith
  • Nothing

• My childhood was marked by a tension between privilege on the one hand and emotional dysfunction on the other.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Hand
  • Emotional
  • Childhood

• The best comedy is where you attack the strong, not the weak.

  

  Ian Hislop
  • Strong
  • Comedy
  • Best

• If you play football, there's going to be a 100 percent injury rate. Something is going to be bothering you. So I just try to focus on the things that I can do to help my team.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Help
  • Team
  • Focus

• Worry about going out there and making your own legacy.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Worry
  • Legacy
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• Use your lives wisely, my friends, and conserve these precious freedoms for future generations.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Friends
  • Future
  • Precious

• I try to get as close as I can to cleaning out my inbox every night.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Night
  • Try
  • Cleaning

• I lost my phone and I just really didn't look for it. It was the nicest feeling, like six weeks. ... A couple of times I needed to use a telephone, and I was always able to touch someone that had a telephone and say, "Hey, can I use your phone? May I please?" And they'd say, "Sure." And that was it! So it was OK, it was a real vacation. I took a real vacation from myself.

  

  Bill Murray
  • Lost
  • Phone

• Right after 9/11 it looked as if the idea of a huge skyscraper might be considered obsolete. It came back, but I think that's more closely connected to the rise of Asian and Middle Eastern cities in the world economy (Dubai, Shanghai, Taipei, etc.) than anything else.

  

  Paul Goldberger
  • World
  • Economy
  • Asian

• A couple of times, I felt like I was cracking and I couldn't go on, and God would put another person in my place to help me.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • God
  • Help
  • Me

• Misfortune does not help us to believe.

  

  Alexandre Dumas
  • Believe
  • Help
  • Misfortune

• I have never been accepted. I'll never make the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They're never going to let me in.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • Me
  • Rock
  • Rock And Roll

• You see, rock and roll isn't a career or hobby - it's a life force. It's something very essential.

  

  David Howell Evans U2
  • Rock And Roll
  • Essential
  • Hobby