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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What we do really affects the world. Most of us think we can't do anything, but it really isn't true.
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I'm easy to hate. I get it.
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My father started with nothing and is a self-made man. No matter what I do with my life, I can never match his accomplishments.
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It's a constant man-ego-check going on in the streets, in this world.
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We were only allowed to watch Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers and 3-2-1 Contact!
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A lot of things have changed since I made my debut in 2004. The way cricket is played has changed. The kind of players that are coming in the Indian team are drastically different than what we were used to. My role is quite the same. You only evolve with time, and that's what I am trying to do.
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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.
