Bono (Paul David Hewson) Quotes
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Remember who you are and where you come from; otherwise, you don't know where you are going.
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I always try to keep a little bit of space in the year to work with other people. Because I love doing musicals, films and plays - projects where I'm not in charge, where I've got somebody else telling me what to do and I have to work with their vision.
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You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
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I think when you're dealing with very tenuous scenes and difficult and heavy subject matter, it's important to be close intimately with your cast as friends, and be able to diffuse a lot of that tension and trust each other with the work.
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What people are looking for are candidates and representatives that are going to work hard, tell it like it is. I'm unafraid to do things when it doesn't poll well.
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It's obviously nerve-wracking, because I don't know the ropes really, William is obviously used to it, but I'm willing to learn quickly and work hard.
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To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be.
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If you want to accomplish twice as much, you have to work twice as hard.
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I know what I've done, and I know who I am.
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It was tough for him in that newsroom with Ted Baxter getting all the glory and this poor guy doing all the work. Murray worried so much he worried his hair off!
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I'd really like to work with Gwen Stefani and Cee Lo.
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Quality is everyone's responsibility.
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I had a job since I was old enough to work - since I was, like, 14.
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Usually, the music inspires the lyrics. The lyrics just sort of fall off like a bunch of crumbs from the melody. That's all I want them to be - crumbs. I don't want to work any kind of fabricated message.
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I simply seem to drift. But I sort of allow the drift, because it has a kind of check – it forces me to work harder at what I'm interested in.
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One of the reasons I've gotten so attached to talking to scientists is that... they know there is a reality.
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So then you have to say to yourself: Do I want to be rich, or do I want to do good work?
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You never know how much time you got.
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I don't know what would I do in future; I'll decide it later.
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We believe in the Australian promise; that if you work hard, you won't be left behind.
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I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
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It does the American economy no long-term good to only keep the big box factories where we are now assembling 'American' products that are composed primarily of foreign components. We need to manufacture those components in a robust domestic supply chain that will spur job and wage growth.
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Poverty is the greatest cause of terrorism.
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U2's best work has always been when we didn't know what we're doing.
