Adam Clayton Quotes

For us there's U2 music, and then there's everything else.

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• And although I've been very fortunate in the film work that's come my way, I need to get back to the stage. If I'm away for a maximum of two years, I feel something's wrong.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Work
  • Feel
  • Stage

• Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Thoughts
  • Blind
  • Content

• I think mobility is very important, not only to discover opportunities elsewhere but at times, also to appreciate better what your home town has. Allahabad, for instance, has the feel of a small, tightly-knit community where everyone participates.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Important
  • Home
  • Small

• In many of my plays, there was a kind of autobiographical character in the form of a son or young man.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Character
  • Man
  • Son

• One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Free
  • Problems

• We can see cities during the day and at night, and we can watch rivers dump sediment into the ocean, and see hurricanes form.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Night
  • Day
  • Ocean

• Girls, to me, growing up were very, very petty and didn't want me to succeed and didn't want the best for me.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Best

• Imagination creates some big monsters.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Imagination
  • Big
  • Monsters

• They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact.

  

  Barney Ross
  • Want
  • Japanese
  • Planes

• The whole character of Justin and the club life he lives - I have no experience with it. It's really foreign to me, which is annoying, but that's just how it is.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • Life
  • Character
  • Experience

• Catholic schools in Indonesia routinely accept non-Catholic students, but exempt them from studying religion. Obama's school documents, though, wrongly list him as being Indonesian.

  

  Aaron Klein
  • School
  • Religion
  • Catholic

• There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Life
  • Happiness
  • Meaningful

• I made a commitment... both to myself and to some supporters to carefully consider a run for the Liberal leadership for the Liberal Party of Canada.

  

  Dalton McGuinty
  • Party
  • Myself
  • Leadership

• Don't worry about being a star, worry about doing good work, and all that will come to you.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Good
  • Work
  • Star

• I came to America to become an architect. And somewhere along the line while I was still in school, I was lured into theater, and that's how I became interested in theater. My first play was something called 'A Banquet for the Moon.' It was a weird play.

  

  Mako
  • School
  • America
  • Weird

• One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.

  

  Gabrielle Roy
  • Earth
  • Destiny
  • Own

• Berlin has traditionally backed a rules-based eurozone in which every member state is responsible for its own finances, including bank bailouts, with political union limited to a fiscal overlord's possessing veto power over national budgets that violate the rules.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • Power
  • Political
  • Rules

• Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.

  

  J. Edgar Hoover
  • Money
  • Society
  • Almost

• We need a plan. What's the plan? We don't have a plan. We need one. We need a master plan to fix traffic, water and crime problems. We need planning, planning, planning. I'm gonna make a plan, etc.

  

  David Steele Fine Young Cannibals
  • Problems
  • Need
  • Plan

• The character is close to me, except that I haven't lived through those situations, so it's not completely me.

  

  Charlotte Gainsbourg
  • Character

• I've given up looking for a boyfriend. That's not to say I won't be interested if the right guy comes along. But I'm not in a hurry.

  

  Emily VanCamp
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Boyfriend

• I had always loved music. I grew up listening to classic country, Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard. My dad loved Vern Gosdin and Keith Whitley. So I kept going to class and started getting totally into playing guitar and teaching myself these songs.

  

  Jake Owen
  • Up
  • Music
  • Country

• The bottom line is, I tend to be going back to older and older music.

  

  Martin Scorsese
  • Music

• For us there's U2 music, and then there's everything else.

  

  Adam Clayton U2
  • Music
  • Everything
  • U.S.