Adam Clayton Quotes
If you believe in a cause, you must be willing to put yourself on the line for that cause.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Certainly, Continental has taken advantage of pipe and sponsored pipeline projects where we could. As a historic shipper, we have put a lot of oil on pipe. We have over half of our oil on pipe coming out of the Bakken. We feel good about that.
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The best date would have to be at a sporting event - it will show the guy what type of girl she is.
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So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood; to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent!
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If you think there's something you need in order to be happy, then you believe in lack. Then believing you lack, you will create more lack.
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To be called a child of God - there is no greater distinction. I love the final sentence of that Scripture with that emphatic exclamation mark. What a powerful assurance. Right here, right now, in this very moment, no matter how good or bad you feel about yourself, you're a beloved child of God. Throughout Scripture, God is conveying this message. He made you, he loves you, he pursues you, he's not done with you, and he's called you his child.
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If you believe in a cause, you must be willing to put yourself on the line for that cause.
