Adam Clayton Quotes
I don't think rock 'n roll is necessarily a young man's game. I think Neil Young is just as rock'n'roll now as he was in his 20s. I'd like to think we can still be edgy and challenging.
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We don't really watch basketball in Australia.
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This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.
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I became interested in ocean issues in the 1980s when I couldn't take my daughters swimming because of pollution at our local beach. Twenty-five years later, I'm a board member of Oceana, the world's largest international organization dedicated to ocean conservation.
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I always say, keep a diary and someday it'll keep you.
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There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
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Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
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I consider that 9/11 was the day when war was started against my own work and against myself. Even though we are not sure of the links, Iraq was one of the countries that did not lower its flags in mourning on 9/11.
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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
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Men look like pandas when they try and put make-up on.
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I have great stories. I am going to write a book.
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I used to try to pick locks because I grew up on my grandparents' farm and I started my own little spy club. I would go around the farm and try to break into the shed and try spying on my grandpa. It was ridiculous.
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Angry or not. It's a human emotion. But you can't walk around being angry all the time. What a dull person you'd have to be!
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I guess you can stay sort of true to the story; you don't have to artificially bring the character back from whatever doom you've designed for them, you can tell the story, I suppose, honestly.
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The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower.
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Without my Johnson trademark mop of yellow hair, I think I would be nothing.
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I'd have loved to have appeared in 'Absolutely Fabulous' - that's one of my favourite shows.
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When you get older, two things happen to you. You begin to lose your hearing, and I forget what the other one is.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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I don't think that bands that make it on their first album are as strong as bands that don't: there is nowhere to go but down.
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I just love drawing on past human cultures; that's a thrill for me.
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Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. They were the last people you'd expect to be involved in anything strange or mysterious, because they just didn't hold with such nonsense.
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We care about margins.
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Most cities don't have a just cause eviction law. Most allow no cause evictions, as well as evictions for nonpayment.
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I don't think rock 'n roll is necessarily a young man's game. I think Neil Young is just as rock'n'roll now as he was in his 20s. I'd like to think we can still be edgy and challenging.
