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.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Time
  • Struggle
  • Chaos

• 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.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Life
  • Technology
  • Myself

• Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Power
  • Politics
  • Influence

• The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Practice
  • First
  • Building

• One of my favorite things about what I do for a living is that there is no certainty that, at any hour of any day, I could get a phone call that could change everything. Good or bad. I never know.

  

  Samm Levine
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Change

• Be there for your kids. Later, when you need them, they'll be there for you.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Kids
  • You
  • Need

• 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.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Future
  • Success
  • Confidence

• 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.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • People
  • Believe
  • True

• 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.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Idea
  • Competition
  • Place

• I can't watch a Mayweather fight. I don't find it exciting.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Fight
  • Find
  • Watch

• I'll admit it: I'm a control freak. I am. If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it 110% or there's no point in doing it at all, especially if the work takes me away from time with my husband and children.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Time
  • Work
  • Children

• What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.

  

  Olin Miller
  • Human
  • Problems
  • Everyone

• 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.

  

  Patrick Whitesell
  • World
  • Stars
  • Content

• 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.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Character
  • Funny
  • Voice

• I just want to have a nice, happy life.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Nice

• 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.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Life
  • Real
  • She

• I love doing serious movies for adults.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Serious
  • Doing
  • Movies

• We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Wish
  • Deep
  • Look

• Events at home, at work, in the street - these are the bases for a story.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Work
  • Home
  • Street

• 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.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Way
  • Happiness
  • Achieve

• In the old movies, yes, there always was the happy ending and order was restored. As it is in Shakespeare's plays. It's no disgrace to, in the end, restore order. And punish the wicked and, in some way, reward the righteous.

  

  John Updike
  • Happy

• I like Australia, but every time I'm there, I feel like everybody's being sarcastic because everyone's so nice.

  

  Jillian Rose Banks
  • Time
  • Nice
  • Sarcastic

• I gave up religious thinking a long time ago and am really just an agnostic now.

  

  John Hurt
  • Up
  • Time
  • Thinking

• 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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