Bono (Paul David Hewson) Quotes
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I am Parisian. I don't love the French.
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I love having a lot of content. I prefer to have constant stimulation.
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After ten or twelve years you can only play something so long and then you start to parody it.
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I like to provoke. I'm very French.
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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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I love Cartier. They are the classic French jeweller.
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Despite the metadata attached to each tweet, and despite trails of retweets and 'favorite' tweets, the Twitter corpus lacks the latticework of hyperlinks that makes Google's algorithms so potent. Twitter's famous hashtags - #sandyhook or #fiscalcliff or #girls - are the crudest sort of signposts, not much help for smart searching.
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Anybody who has children and children who are well feels a sense of responsibility towards parents and kids and families that are struggling and that aren't well.
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I'm doing my best to stay off that financing scheme that relies on this one strip of capital, which is the red carpet. And - no sob story - but it's hard. It takes a while.
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I want London to be a competitive, dynamic place to come to work.
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What if Obama is so outside our comprehension, that only if you understand Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior, can you begin to piece together his actions? That is the most accurate, predictive model for his behavior.
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Believe it or not, in 1969 the French writer Georges Perec wrote a palindromic story that was 500 words long! The whole story reads the same backwards as forwards.
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Children notice things first, people later.
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I give notice that Joe Public will be back on the scene in a big way. You won't have a two-team league no more.
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You notice that he does not ask, Where am I?" says the Mayor's voice, moving out there, somewhere. "His first words are, Where is she? And his Noise says the same. Interesting.
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The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.
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I have just learned a delicious French usage. On wedding invitations when they say the mass is at noon they mean one o'clock -when they say at noon precise they mean half after twelve - and when they say at very precisely noon they mean noon.
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When you do your best, people notice.
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No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.
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My ideal Valentine's Day is spending it with someone you are in love with and for that someone to make you feel loved and appreciated.
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Not all things are to be discovered; many are better concealed.
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The instructed noble disciple knows of an escape from painful feeling other than sensual pleasure. Since he does not seek delight in sensual pleasure, the underlying tendency to lust for pleasant feeling does not lie behind this. He understands as it really is the origin and the passing away, the gratification, the danger, and the escape in the case of these feelings. Since he understands these things, the underlying tendency to ignorance in regard to neither-painful-nor-pleasant feeling does not lie behind this.
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We can only use British actors because everybody's got to talk exactly the same.
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The French are so into themselves that they don't even notice you.
