Bono (Paul David Hewson) Quotes
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I think, doing a first film, at some point you get halfway through, and you wonder, 'Is this is good enough to define who I am for the coming decade?'
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Everyone is doing forensics.
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I find it very difficult to say no when I'm in Ireland. You do end up going around doing lots of events and things and not getting work done, and it's not just a question of having hours at the desk.
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Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.
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Do you know why I don't like doing press? I have trouble condensing things. I'd rather have a conversation.
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What they are doing is taking something that otherwise creates pollution and turning it into something useful.
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I was strong and healthy and I was enjoying what I was doing.
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The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.
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You can't hate Britney Spears because, you know what, no matter what Britney Spears been doing, she's still on TV.
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I know there are some actors who are just brilliant at improvising and brilliant at just being in the moment and doing it there and then. I'm not one of those actors.
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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.
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Some of football's gaudiest displays of manliness are purely aesthetic. It's not what players do, it's how they look doing it.
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What we're doing to the planet is inexcusable.
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There is no substitute to taking a lot of a catches as a youngster if you want to do slip catching - you've got to catch, catch, catch. And more than doing the normal stuff, you have to vary your catching - you've got to take some catches with the tennis ball, you got to take some closer, some further away.
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One trap you can fall into when playing someone iconic is to end up doing everything in an iconic way, no matter how pedestrian or mundane that thing is.
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We'd be doing parkour on my high school roof; we'd get in trouble. But I was never a reckless kid.
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
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Don't look for approval in what everyone else is doing; look for approval from Almighty God.
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Green policy is about triggering a shift to a cleaner way of doing things. To be effective, it needs to incentivise the right behaviour, for example through tax breaks, and that needs to be paid for by disincentives on polluting behaviour.
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I think the audience for Limp Bizkit is probably not going to be particularly interested in what we're doing. I don't think they'll find much that satisfies them in what we do.
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Writing is a very lonely occupation. To write you need to concentrate, to concentrate you need to lock yourself away. No distractions; you want your stream of thought uninterrupted.
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I wouldn't say one is easier or more difficult, but when you're inside a costume and a mask, you have to endure heat - and, often, difficulty seeing. The vision is not very good in a mask. And you have to cope with that, as well as trying to think about this character.
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Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece.
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The right to be irresponsible and stupid is something I hold very dear. And luckily it is something I do well.
