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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Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.
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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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It's really comforting for me and Jeff, at least, that after 12 years we finally feel we've reached a place where we can be more honest, real and loving with each other. And we're finally in a band that we know is good, and deserves the credit it's getting.
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We are living in complex, difficult times and I wanted Syriana to reflect this complexity in a visceral way, to embrace it narratively. There are no good guys and no bad guys and there are no easy answers. The characters do not have traditional character arcs; the stories don't wrap up in neat little life lessons, the questions remain open. The hope was that by not wrapping everything up, the film will get under your skin in a different way and stay with you longer. This seemed like the most honest reflection of this post 9-11 world we all find ourselves in.
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I don't believe in miracles.
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Run while you still have the chance.
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The eternal task of song can never be finished in a single lifetime. That is the beauty and fascination of the art. Once you begin to phrase finely, you will feel more joy in the beautiful finish of a beautiful phrase than that caused by the loudest applause of an immense audience. The latter excites for a moment; the former endures forever.
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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.
