Adam Clayton Quotes

Performing at this level requires an absolute commitment and dedication. You can't half commit.

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• The C student starts a restaurant. The A student writes restaurant reviews.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Student
  • Restaurant
  • Reviews

• Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • American
  • Price
  • Treasure

• But I prefer to go to comedies. Give me Julia Roberts smiling anyday.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Me
  • Prefer
  • Smiling

• We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Free
  • Hate
  • Authority

• The chasm between rich and poor is becoming larger, and I think it's interesting terrain to talk about and expose.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • Think
  • Interesting
  • Rich

• A solid family, as they say. They join me on location if they have a chance, but I can also be home three or four months doing nothing, so I probably see my kids more than people who work constantly all year long. If that changes, we'll have to have a family meeting.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • People
  • Work
  • Long

• If I buy a game on Steam and I'm running it on Windows, I can go to one of the Steam machines and already have the game. So you benefit as a developer; you benefit as a consumer in having the PC experience extended in the living room.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • Experience
  • Game
  • Running

• Education promotes equality and lifts people out of poverty. It teaches children how to become good citizens. Education is not just for a privileged few, it is for everyone. It is a fundamental human right.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • People
  • Good
  • Children

• In general, I think comedy is more difficult to write, to direct, and to act successfully.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • Think
  • Comedy
  • Difficult

• Blackbeard is probably the most infamous pirate who ever lived. He's one of those characters for which most of your work is done before you start.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Work
  • Done
  • Start

• When we don't have all the details about our characters, we have to make it up to fill in all the details. So, for me, writing and acting go hand in hand.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Hand

• Maybe it's a tired tale, but without an education, you're not going to go anywhere.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • You
  • Education
  • Tired

• I've always thought that gaming and YouTube and the web is a very post-punk extravaganza.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • Always
  • Thought
  • Gaming

• The thing is, one in three women in the Western world will end up having an abortion, but they never talk about it. When you keep silent about that stuff, it is because you are embarrassed by the societal distaste of the topic.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Up
  • World
  • Women

• For most of my 20s, I looked like I was 12. Now that I'm pushing 40, I guess I look closer to... 15? It must be my macrobiotic diet. Oh, wait, except that I don't have one of those.

  

  Gabriel Mann
  • Look
  • Wait
  • Diet

• Spain's constitution was introduced to cement democracy after Franco's dictatorship, but this government is exploiting its wording as a means to deny us our right to vote.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Government
  • Democracy
  • Vote

• I'm trying to fight typecasting as hard as I can, while I have time.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Fight

• I'm starting to realize that people are beginning to want to know about me. It's a jolly strange idea.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • People
  • Idea
  • Strange

• We are taking our culture and suturing it to America. Like gum on the bottom of a shoe, we are not going to disappear. Unlike other peoples who totally assimilated, we are more interested in co-assimilation.

  

  John Leguizamo
  • America
  • Culture

• The brave love mercy, and delight to save.

  

  John Gay
  • Brave
  • Mercy

• I think I had the most fun making a movie with 'Dedication,' just because you knew that it was a passion project for everyone involved. We had X amount of days to shoot New York in the cold. No trailers. Just sort of kind of doing it guerilla style in a way.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Movie
  • Fun
  • Passion

• Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Life
  • Work
  • Respect

• I was doing gigs to stay alive. I worked two or three jobs at a time, there were times when I stayed up for 36 hours straight. I slept in shopping mall parking lots. A stand-up gig paid $35; then I could eat for another few days until the next gig. Literally, I was performing to live.

  

  Dat Phan
  • Alive
  • Hours
  • Performing

• Performing at this level requires an absolute commitment and dedication. You can't half commit.

  

  Adam Clayton U2
  • Commitment
  • Performing
  • Dedication