Bono (Paul David Hewson) Quotes

I'm a singer, not a politician, and I think you don't want the two to get confused. It's not OK to be on CNN talking about people starving and then tell the interviewer that your new album is coming out in six months.

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• I was a confused young girl with so much tragedy. Sometimes when you're going through stuff, the last person you're thinking exists is God. I mean, it was my confusion, the anger that was in my heart, all that drama. But thank God I know God now, okay?

  

  Tasha Smith
  • God
  • Thinking
  • Heart

• I didn't know I wanted to act until it was around 21. I had just come back to Los Angeles after two and half years of traveling and working as a dancer and singer and was looking for a new performing art to study. I started taking acting classes and fell in love.

  

  Caity Lotz
  • Study
  • Working
  • Singer

• Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Passion
  • Moral
  • Better

• I think what people get confused about is that they want to label me as this EDM girl, but a lot of this stuff is genre-less.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • People
  • Think
  • Want

• Age is relative. Experience is relative. And I think often intensity is confused with maturity.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Experience
  • Age
  • Confused

• I wanted to work with Bryan Singer because I like his films.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Work
  • Like
  • Singer

• I had no interest in being an actress what so ever, and when I was about 14 or 15, I was signed to a company in England. They owned a children's TV show which they put me in as a singer, and I was on the show for three years, and I left the show when I was 18 and started looking for a record contract.

  

  India de Beaufort
  • Children
  • Interest
  • Actress

• Well, probably I was fed up with concrete poetry. There was a lot of bad concrete poetry and besides, it was confused with visual poetry which was completely different.

  

  Ian Hamilton Finlay
  • Up
  • Different
  • Bad

• I made a living being a background singer for years.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Years
  • Living
  • Singer

• Obviously, I'm not a singer. I don't consider myself a singer.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Myself
  • Singer
  • Obviously

• My views as an individual ought not to be confused with my views as a scientist - the minute you try to mingle God and science, you get into trouble. Metaphysics has its place, and science has its place; don't mix the two.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • God
  • Science
  • Confused

• I love Katy Perry, she is a wonderful pop singer.

  

  Pat Benatar
  • She
  • Wonderful
  • Singer

• My so-called bad dress-sense phase happened when I was confused - I think I was taking advice all too often, without listening to my inner voice. Add to the fact that I was a little overweight; so every wrong 'outfit' got compounded all that much.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Bad
  • Listening
  • Advice

• When I was young I felt really overwhelmed and confused by the desire not to end up in an office, doing something I didn't believe in.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Desire

• I always thought I was a singer, but I really am not.

  

  Eddie Albert
  • Always
  • Thought
  • Singer

• Being able to fantasize for a couple of days at being a rock singer surpassed most things I've done on stage.

  

  Gary Cole
  • Done
  • Rock
  • Couple

• There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Singing
  • Hear
  • Singer

• I have so much respect for the big opera singers that I never dare to say I'm a singer.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • Respect
  • Singer
  • Dare

• My favorite singer is Lauryn Hill - all time, hands down. She was my biggest inspiration growing up.

  

  Leah LaBelle
  • Inspiration
  • Singer
  • Lauryn Hill

• How do you get the protagonists and antagonists together, in the same space, without somebody having to die? So, we ended up having to tell two distinct stories, which is never the ultimate way to create a great serialized drama. So then, of course, we had the tragedy with Andy Whitfield, which made everything very difficult and pushed back.

  

  Chris Albrecht
  • Together
  • Drama
  • Difficult

• The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Writing
  • Business
  • Beginning

• Society doesn't like to deal with death, but it is a natural part of living.

  

  Harmon Killebrew
  • Death
  • Society
  • Living

• The free market is at its best when everybody works in a fishbowl and tells you their point of view.

  

  Mario Gabelli
  • Free

• I'm a singer, not a politician, and I think you don't want the two to get confused. It's not OK to be on CNN talking about people starving and then tell the interviewer that your new album is coming out in six months.

  

  Bono U2
  • Confused
  • Singer
  • Interviewer