Adam Clayton Quotes
If you believe in a cause, you must be willing to put yourself on the line for that cause.
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Matching shoes and bags immediately age you by 10 years.
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Life in cities is not a spring but a river, or rather, a water main. It progresses like a novel, artificially.
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It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.
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I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.
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The performance of international institutions will be symptomatic of the domestic political priorities of influential member states. International institutions don't really have a life and a mind of their own.
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I feel that everyone has a right to be insane.
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How people are around a director, it really does affect everything, every detail of the life of the movie.
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Until part of your paycheck is regularly paid in Bitcoin, I'm not sure how it would really go mainstream. I can imagine places in the world where there are not functioning banking systems or payroll systems, where it could go mainstream first because you're not trying to replace the way people are already doing something.
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What's become a big theme in my music is my dad as a narrative character. I never had the opportunity to understand our relationship in a more adult capacity. The unknown is great material for any creative outlet.
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Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength.
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I'm not playing for other musicians. We're trying to reach the guy who works all day and wants to spend a buck at night. We'll keep him happy.
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I've been asked to do 'I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!' and I do get asked to do all sorts of things like that - but I don't want to put my career on hold. I'd have to take three weeks off to do something like that. Maybe it's something I'd think about after it's all ended.
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I thought Obama ran the best campaign I have ever known - disciplined, well organised, very, very good. I was very impressed.
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I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.
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Does that mean we should give up? Probably. But there are two issues worth considering. The first is - is it really true that drugs destroy the integrity of the game?
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The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
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All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art.
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People say you should go out at the top but I was enjoying my football so much. Robbie Fowler's exactly the same: he's not playing for money any more, he's playing for enjoyment. Why go out at the top if it's going to make you miserable? I just wanted to play as long as I could.
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We worked lightly even in the heaviest parts.
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I once read Updike after writing a first draft, and I wanted to put my own book on the fire. I've since learned to read utter crap while I'm writing: pulp is the thing.
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For generations, Americans who aren't rich have been generous and admiring of their wealthy compatriots - want a country where people who work hard can succeed, where the same rules apply to everyone. They expect to have their own shot at getting rich. But increasingly, they are seeing that the game is rigged.
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All good, clean stories are melodrama; it's just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.
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If you believe in a cause, you must be willing to put yourself on the line for that cause.
