Adam Clayton Quotes
It was a pretty special couple of years. I mean it was a pretty mad couple of years where reality and fantasy and everything got kinda mixed up big time.
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I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.
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I forced myself to think what is the new concept and it became clear to me that it was risk, not only in technology and ecology, but in life and employment, too.
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.
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Be there for your kids. Later, when you need them, they'll be there for you.
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If the 'Post' can play the role of a connector between the West and the East, I have confidence in the paper's future success.
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I think there are a very few pro-lifers who would say that a zygote in a petri dish is the equivalent of you or me; it's just younger. If you can say that without laughing, maybe you are a true pro-lifer. But I think most people are able or willing to make distinctions that show they maybe don't quite believe that.
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You trivialize the idea of competition totally, then there's no point in having the competition in the first place, and everybody is getting a trophy.
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I can't watch a Mayweather fight. I don't find it exciting.
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What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.
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We saw simply distribution was changing, content, premium content, premium stars; we're going to be able to do more in the world as it evolves.
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Being funny with a funny voice is more my comfort zone, a broader character that I try to humanize, a kind of silly or wacky persona that I try to fill in.
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I just want to have a nice, happy life.
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You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it. Democracy, marriage, friendship. You can't just say, 'She's my best friend.' That's not a given, it's a process.
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I love doing serious movies for adults.
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We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.
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Events at home, at work, in the street - these are the bases for a story.
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There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.
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You have major labels that are willing to take unconventional approaches because the old model is crumbling in front of us.
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I do have a natural sense for business, which I think I get from my Dad.
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Over the past 50 years we got versions of X-ray specs and space vacations, and even death rays. But the X-ray specs don't fit on your face - they're big things that screen your luggage for guns. Space vacations are real, but they cost $20 million. We have death rays, but you have to be a triple Ph.D. to play with them.
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When the history of our times is written, will we be remembered as the generation that turned our backs in a moment of global crisis or will it be recorded that we did the right thing?
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I'm not a huge party girl. When I turned 18, the thing I was most excited about was being able to vote for the first time.
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It was a pretty special couple of years. I mean it was a pretty mad couple of years where reality and fantasy and everything got kinda mixed up big time.
