Bono (Paul David Hewson) Quotes
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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The number of children is not growing any longer in the world. We are still debating peak oil, but we have definitely reached peak child.
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Our teachers are operating just as effective leaders in the business world do. They set a vision that most people think is crazy. They convince the kids why it's important to accomplish the goal. And they are totally relentless.
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You still stand watch, O human star, burning without a flicker, perfect flame, bright and resourceful spirit. Each of your rays a great idea - O torch which passes from hand to hand, from age to age, world without end.
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My whole thing is to entertain, make people laugh and to forget about the real world for awhile.
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But I do not believe that the world would be entirely different if there were more women leaders. Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven't exactly been non-aggressive - including me.
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Shoes are very emotional. For women, they carry the message that you want to give to the world. One day you want to be sexy, or super powerful at your job - you wear a great pump. If you want to be on-the-go and running after your kids - you wear a great flat.
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It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.
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Theater will cast in a more open way; Denzel Washington might play Richard III. Television and film don't really cast openly like that. The theater world has always been a leader in diversity.
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Human curiosity, the urge to know, is a powerful force and is perhaps the best secret weapon of all in the struggle to unravel the workings of the natural world.
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Awards mean absolutely nothing if you don't get it. If you do get it, they're the best thing in the world.
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I think if I did something in the pop world right now, it would be for Rihanna. I'd love to do something production wise for her.
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My grandfather had a particularly important influence on my life, even though I didn't visit him often, since he lived about three miles out of town and he died when I was six. He was remarkably curious about the world, and he read lots of books.
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The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.
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Our education system is not preparing young people for the world they will face.
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Science, already oppressive with its shocking revelations, will perhaps be the ultimate exterminator of our human species - if separate species we be - for its reserve of unguessed horrors could never be borne by mortal brains if loosed upon the world.
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I've been out all over the world tranquilizing animals.
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I knew I was getting into one of the most illegal things in the world. It was the right thing to do.
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There should be order if the development of the cyber world is to be sustainable.
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The condition of our survival in any but the meagerest existence is our willingness to accommodate ourselves to the conflicting interests of others, to learn to live in a social world.
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'When you are dead your spirit will find my spirit,And then we shall die no more.'
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I, talking about my children, of course I wanted them to succeed in life, they have to choose whatever job or occupation that they want, I will not try to influence.
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I loved 'The Sweeney.'
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Where you live in the world should not determine whether you live in the world.
