Bono (Paul David Hewson) Quotes
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Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
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I don't care to be remembered as the man who scored six touchdowns in a game. I want to be remembered as a winner in life.
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What I believe will make my acting career successful going forward is hard work. I like to challenge myself. Then it's the people I meet and choosing the projects I want to work on correctly. There's a lot of characters I can play.
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The thing about American writers is that, as a group, they get stuck in the same idea: that we're a continent and the world falls away after us. And it's just nonsense.
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A Nicklaus Design golf course is done by the guys in my company that I work with, that have been trained in my vision, and they do what they think I might do. They might come in the office and ask me questions and I'd certainly answer their questions, but I'm not involved in the site visits or anything else.
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I have a classic taste with a twist, because classic never goes away.
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Medicine, anything academic, is a very Persian Iranian route to take in life, in one's career.
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I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writers and contemporary events. I live in the real world.
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I look forward to making tangible and inspirational contributions to the Houston Technology Center's initiatives. HTC is an engine behind Houston's and Texas' continued growth.
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One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.
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The truth is that technology is only valuable if it helps you run your organization better.
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My knee has always given me problems. But it got to the point where I actually had to start giving up things. And I hate that.
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The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. That's been true of everyone from James Carville and George Stephanopoulos to the kids in 'American High' to the soldiers in 'Military Diaries' to Anna Wintour to Dick Cheney.
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I want to be in the small percentage of women who don't settle for conventional roles.
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Because my profession is the body, it is a relaxation for me to get out of physicality and concentrate on more mental things.
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I'm not a straight man, but I play one on television.
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Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.
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I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity.
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In 1962 I wrote for 'Jazz News,' using the pseudonym Manfred Manne, which I picked because of a jazz drummer with that name. I later dropped the 'e.'
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When I get up in the morning, I have to decide what I'm going to have for dinner or I can't get through the day.
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Religion creates community, community creates altruism and altruism turns us away from self and towards the common good... There is something about the tenor of relationships within a religious community that makes it the best tutorial in citizenship and good neighborliness.
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I periodically realize every few years that the only person whose taste I really trust is me.
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The idea of thinking of our relationships with people as also being structured by limitations and constraints can be useful.
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As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both.
