Adam Clayton Quotes
I think it's hard to come to a U2 show and just eat hot dogs and drink a soda, and not be moved by it.
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I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
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There are some people who believe that these are not real stories with real people, but they actually are.
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The Law of God in the Christian religion is the schoolmaster that leads us to Christ.
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I'm no stranger to the occasional dodgy juice, but it doesn't taste very nice and it is bloody boring. It's not a way to live.
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I know I stand visibly onstage, but my function is still unseen, because I rarely see the immediate results of what I am saying or doing or writing.
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Most writers are drawn to what is unknown, rather than what is clear in any tale.
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There are two types of people in the world, and I'm one of them.
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I'm more interested in my life than I am in my career. I don't want to not work. I do enjoy working, but not to the point where that's the only thing I focus on.
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Holly Hunter has been doing great work forever.
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I'd like to see women get on to boards and run companies despite the fact that men occupy the citadels of power.
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Later in life, the memories I have of my mother are of constant work balanced with caring for my ailing father.
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When God writes our names in the 'Lamb's Book of Life' He doesn't do it with an eraser handy. He does it for eternity.
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The threat of nuclear terrorism is growing faster than our ability to prevent an attack on our homeland.
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Why be a dumb dud? Do your friends shun you? Do people cross the street when they see you approaching? Do they run up the steps of strange houses, pretend they live there and force their way into the hall while you are passing by? If this is the sort of person you are, you must avail yourself today of this new service. Otherwise, you might as well be dead.
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Posterity will surely be amazed, and I hope vastly amused, that such slipshod and unconvincing theorizing should have so easily captivated twentieth-century minds and been so widely and recklessly applied.
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Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don't sum up a man's life in one moment.
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Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.
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What Zidane can do with a football, Maradona could do with an orange.
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Weirdly, some of the middle stuff of the descent into something going wrong were the hardest, tonally. You don't want to jump the gun and be instantly paranoid about the fact that she has made coffee wrong because that would be weird. It's the slow build and letting it sink in. If they say everything is okay, you believe your partner. You don't want to rattle the boat too much on your honeymoon.
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We are all dually feminine and masculine. To give in to both of those things would strengthen us as human beings and there is such a drastic difference between men, and men who are terrified of their own femininity.
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I think it's hard to come to a U2 show and just eat hot dogs and drink a soda, and not be moved by it.
