Adam Clayton Quotes
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In real life, I'm polite and nice all the time. It's fun to play people who aren't. It's escapism.
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The Palestinian Authority gets money from the American taxpayer.
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I wanted to go to college and play football.
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There's nothing that will change someone's moral outlook quicker than cash in large sums.
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History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
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Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
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Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.
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Running is what keeps my weight down. I have to stay active or I could easily gain weight.
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I started cooking out of middle school depression.
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I'm a plodder, one foot in front of the other. Life is all about understanding that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. And it's your ability with how you deal with that adversity that ultimately affects your success.
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My father's peripatetic career also gave me critical perspective when it came to my own career choices.
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The F.B.I. is about nuts and bolts. It's all about witnesses and procedure and walking the streets.
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We love Popsicle in our house. Nick could probably down a whole box in one sitting; he's obsessed with the sugar free box, and I'm just obsessed with the classic.
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Fortunately, I don't spend too much time reading or worrying about what people have to say, but the goal for me throughout this whole process - throughout my whole life - is to try to be happy.
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The slow philosophy is not about doing everything in tortoise mode. It's less about the speed and more about investing the right amount of time and attention in the problem so you solve it.
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I'm on the front line and I am a rapper.
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There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.
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My eyelashes are divas, so they will like a mascara brand one week or for a month, and then they'll just stop working for it. I go back and forth between Maybelline and Cover Girl, and then I carry around a primer, too.
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My room used to be full of Michael Jackson posters.
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Taste is one of the five senses, and the man who tells us with priggish pride that he does not care what he eats is merely boasting of his sad deficiency: he might as well be proud of being deaf or blind, or, owing to a perpetual cold in the head, of being devoid of the sense of smell.
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I started dating older men, and I would fall in love with them. I thought they could teach me about life.
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I do not cook.
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I didn't really discover 'Risky Business' until later in life because I was so young when it came out.
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Men should not be forced to wear pants when it's not cold.
