Adam Clayton Quotes
With that tour, I feel we really pushed ourselves to the limit. I know that we regained a lot of critical credibility; that's nice but to be honest that wasn't something that I really thought about very much.
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We all know now that people can look good for their age. It isn't so extraordinary, I don't know why people go on about it so much.
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I'll fill those canyons in your soul, like a river lead you home. And I'll walk a step behind, in the shadows so you shine. Just ask, it will be done and I will prove my love, until you're sure that I'm the one.
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I want every version of a woman and a man to be possible. I want women and men to be able to be full-time parents or full-time working people or any combination of the two.
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I like people, and I like listening to them because something that'll happen out of that conversation could be the title or the subject of the song.
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In the beginning, when I was doing my shows, I was incorporating a lot of Spanish, just trying to be a Latino comic instead of just a comic. Now I try to make the show as broad as possible... I don't want to alienate people. I want to make it so everybody can follow along and everybody can relate.
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India absorbs things; India's not a divisive place.
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I love the sport and being competitive.
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The motivation for making movies is that people actually see them.
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I have written stories since I was a child.
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I was born in the technology era.
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Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
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I spent a lot of my life schlepping around New York with people not doing things for me.
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It is a sad place, young man, for you to put your young life into. It is to me far more like a graveyard than like a camp for the living. Look at it! It is billowed all over with the graves of dead issues, of buried opinions, of exploded theories, of disgraced doctrines.
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If I could have anyone's mind for a day, I really can't think of anyone other than Einstein.
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There's a kind of emotional exploration you plumb with a friend that you don't really do with your family.
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Operator! Give me the number for 911!
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Dogma is the guardian of mystery. The doctrines are spiritually significant in ways that we cannot fathom.
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I think maybe everyone falls... I think the asking is whether we get back up again.
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When Chrissie Hynde was inducted into the Hall of Fame, I, of course, was there to see that because I have to back up the girl. When it was over, I said we needed to have a party for Chrissie in my hotel suite. I didn't really know her, but it was great.
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A lot of young artists in particular think you can just do one great thing and then sit back and collect checks. Most artists, even people like Dan Clowes, who's one of my heroes, don't just do comics. He does paid illustration. He writes screenplays, and so forth, working and selling lots of different things.
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To be honest, I grew up with Alan Menken's music.
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I saw that my witticism was unperceived and quietly replaced it in the treasury of my mind.
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One must console oneself with the thought that time has a sieve through which most of these important things run into the ocean of oblivion and what remains after this selection is often still trite and bad.
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With that tour, I feel we really pushed ourselves to the limit. I know that we regained a lot of critical credibility; that's nice but to be honest that wasn't something that I really thought about very much.
