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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America should be working more with the Mexicans to prevent the flow of guns going south into Mexico that have fueled so much of the violence there, and the smuggling of cash and the money laundering that transnational criminal organizations have instituted in North America, including in the United States.
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Confronted by a Church that has ceased to manifest God's mercy and intimate connection with humankind - that has converted Christ into a grim and joyless adjunct to the policing of bedrooms and marital intercourse - men and women can no longer see themselves as beloved of God, only as impure and reprehensible.
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A good cookout ought to last at least six hours; if you haven't eaten and gotten full and gotten hungry and eaten again, you're doing something wrong.
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We're terrible animals. I think that the Earth's immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should.
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There is beauty everywhere. But if I had to narrow it down, I absolutely adore Beyonce. She's the ultimate icon for me. I also love Naomi CampbelI, Jourdan Dunn, Joan Smalls, Daria Werbowy, and Genevieve Nnaji.
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Men should not be forced to wear pants when it's not cold.