Bono (Paul David Hewson) Quotes

The French are so into themselves that they don't even notice you.

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• I am Parisian. I don't love the French.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Love
  • French
  • Parisian

• I love having a lot of content. I prefer to have constant stimulation.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Love
  • Content
  • Prefer

• After ten or twelve years you can only play something so long and then you start to parody it.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Long
  • Play
  • Start

• I like to provoke. I'm very French.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Like
  • Very
  • French

• By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • May
  • Science
  • Principles

• I love Cartier. They are the classic French jeweller.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Classic
  • French
  • Jeweller

• 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.

  

  James Gleick
  • Help
  • Smart
  • Famous

• 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.

  

  Annette Bening
  • Children
  • Kids
  • Parents

• 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.

  

  Debra Granik
  • Red

• I want London to be a competitive, dynamic place to come to work.

  

  Boris Johnson
  • Work

• 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.

  

  Newt Gingrich
  • Together
  • Model

• 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.

  

  Ursula Dubosarsky
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Words

• Children notice things first, people later.

  

  Walker Percy
  • People
  • Children
  • Notice

• 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.

  

  Jack Warner
  • Scene
  • Back
  • League

• 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.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • She
  • Words
  • Interesting

• 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.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • American
  • Star
  • Ambition

• 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.

  

  Alice B. Toklas
  • Wedding
  • French
  • Delicious

• When you do your best, people notice.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • Best
  • Notice

• If you notice, everyone on Deep Space Nine has this weird... I mean well... weird names. It's like they chose us for that. Except Terry Farrell but she makes it in the weirdness anyway. She fits right in with us.

  

  Nana Visitor
  • Weird
  • Notice
  • Deep Space Nine

• It's funny; recently I've started to notice people's impersonations of me, and it's basically like a hyperactive child.

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
  • Child
  • Notice
  • Impersonation

• New York actually took notice of us and it wasn't in a hokey, hay-bale kind of way.

  

  Leon Eric Brooks III Brooks & Dunn
  • Notice
  • Took

• We are here a nation, composed of the most heterogeneous elements-Protestants and Catholics, English, French, German, Irish, Scotch, every one, let it be remembered, with his traditions, with his prejudices. In each of these conflicting antagonistic elements, however, there is a common spot of patriotism, and the only true policy is that which reaches that common patriotism and makes it vibrate in all toward common ends and common aspirations.

  

  Wilfrid Laurier
  • Nation
  • Elements
  • Remembered

• When writing I just go with the song. I go with the song and try to tell the story. So the story may be "Wonderful Baby", which is a little song. Or it might be a gentle song, "Empty Chairs". Or it might be a rock and roll song like "Prime Time" or "Run, Diana, Run", or "American Pie". I don't know where it's gonna go. I don't have any idea what I'm doing. I just do it. I just keep doing it. I keep taking adva

  

  Don McLean
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Trying

• The French are so into themselves that they don't even notice you.

  

  Bono U2
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