Bono (Paul David Hewson) Quotes

We can be the generation that no longer accepts that an accident of latitude determines whether a child lives or dies. But will we be that generation?

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• I was an avid Pokemon card collector.

  

  Flume
  • Card
  • Collector
  • Avid

• I love the Americans. They are my best friends.

  

  Idi Amin
  • Friends
  • Best
  • Americans

• Now, occultism is not like mystic faculty, and it very seldom works in harmony either with business aptitude in the things of ordinary life or with a knowledge of the canons of evidence in its own sphere.

  

  A. E. Waite
  • Life
  • Business
  • Knowledge

• I can think of no other writer who so thoroughly embodies the Jamesian spirit as Alison Lurie. Like him she can excavate all the possibilities of a theme. Like his, her books seem long, unbroken threads, seamless progressions of effects.

  

  Edmund White
  • Long
  • She
  • Think

• Tasmania needs a watchdog, not a lap dog.

  

  Lara Giddings
  • Needs
  • Dog
  • Lap

• My mom, she's a great cook. You know, pirogue, borscht. I love borscht, and I love Pilemeni, meat dumplings.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Great
  • Know
  • Mom

• You have to make peace with yourself. The key is to find the harmony in what you have.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Peace
  • Yourself
  • Harmony

• I've never drunk coffee. I'm convinced it has something to do with why my skin is good. I have either mint, green or black tea.

  

  Saffron Aldridge
  • Good
  • Why
  • Black

• The budget doesn't have much control over the government. Then again, the government doesn't have much control over the budget.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Control
  • Government
  • Budget

• You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Thinking
  • Start
  • Possible

• When you have children, that's your main focus.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Children
  • You
  • Focus

• There is an element of luck, there is an element of trial and error, sometimes you fail, sometimes you succeed. It's not as beautifully simple as it may seem when we are talking about it.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • May
  • Simple
  • Sometimes

• We shot 'Skateland' in the end of 2008, in Shreveport, Louisiana just between the border of East Texas and Louisiana - and we shot 'Battle: Los Angeles' at the end of 2009, also in Shreveport. So I know a lot about Shreveport.

  

  Taylor Handley
  • End
  • Battle
  • Texas

• Italy in the 1920s, Germany in the '30s, East Germany in the '50s, Czechoslovakia in the '60s, the Latin American dictatorships in the '70s, China in the '80s and '90s - all dictatorships and would-be dictators target newspapers and journalists.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • American
  • Latin
  • China

• It can take up to 100 chinchillas to make one coat and Jennifer Lopez has one made of 80 of them, all killed by electrocution or having their necks snapped. … Besides, wearing fur makes you look like an old woman!

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • Up

• Like the Paris riots, the struggle over French history raises grave questions for Europe. How does the presence of 20 million Muslims who come from nations where men believe their grandfathers were exploited and persecuted by Europeans advance the unity and security of Europe? How is Europe made stronger by such 'diversity'?

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Believe
  • Men
  • History

• I feel the sense of possibilitiesI feel the wrench of hard realitiesThe focus is sharp in the city - The Camera Eye (1981)

  

  Neil Peart Rush
  • City
  • Focus

• We are not going to make America great again. It was never that great

  

  Andrew Cuomo
  • Great
  • America

• Being a humorist is not a voluntary thing. You can tell this because in a situation where saying a funny thing will cause a lot of trouble, a humorist will still say the funny thing. No matter how inappropriate.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Funny
  • Situation
  • Saying

• Fiscal policy is not just, or even not even principally, the purview of the president.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • President
  • Just
  • Policy

• By virtue of creation, and still more the incarnation, nothing here is profane for those who know how to see.

  

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

• Sometimes people here can get so focused on, Oh, I've got to get a flight, that it becomes the end all of everything. Then they go off and fly a couple of flights and they think, Okay, is that all there is in life? No, it's not. There's a whole big life out there.

  

  Shannon Lucid
  • Life
  • Big
  • Flights

• I've always been pretty athletic.

  

  Drew Roy
  • Pretty

• We can be the generation that no longer accepts that an accident of latitude determines whether a child lives or dies. But will we be that generation?

  

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