Bono (Paul David Hewson) Quotes

Convictions, in the end, they can be dangerous, but a world without them is just kind of an awful kind of gray, amorphous mass.

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• People are always angry at America. They're absolutely certain that America either caused their problems or is deliberately not fixing their problems. But the anger is always directed at America and never at Americans.

  

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• Anna Wintour has guided me.

  

  Natalie Massenet
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• I don't think about whether it's gonna be a dance record or a ballad or anything when I'm making music. I sit in the studio and I think, 'How am I feeling today?' and I write how I feel. It's really, really simple.

  

  Sam Smith
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• USC has really developed my love for the cinema.

  

  O'Shea Jackson, Jr.
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• The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

  

  C. S. Lewis
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• There's been no real reason to move to LA. The stuff I've done for America has been done in Europe anyway. We made a decision early on that we'd find our base and not shake the children's world as much as mine.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
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• I have no desire to enter politics. Because I am not suited for that.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
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• You're in the public eye and you just hope that people don't come up and interrupt you while your in the middle of a meal or a conversation or something like that.

  

  Wayne Rogers
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• Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing.

  

  Sally Ride
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  • Space
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• The medical system in the United States is among the best in the world, if not the best. What if we were to make the United States a medical destination? That would bring a lot of people here because there are a lot of sick people around the world. If they can get U.S. treatment, they will take it, but now think about what that will do.

  

  Indra Nooyi
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• I said we needed to organize women around the world to push peace.

  

  Eddie Bernice Johnson
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• When people ask me exactly how much time I spend in each country, I always tell them I have no idea.

  

  Utada Hikaru
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• When I was a kid, I used to love it when one of my friends would jump out from behind a door and try to scare me. I always did the same thing in response.

  

  Patrick Carman
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• Vampires!!! What a time to be caught without a turtleneck!

  

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• The thing that I really love about the 80s is, there was a sense of hand made-ness about the fashion then. You could have a pair of jeans and dump some bleach on them, and make them something that was really trendy for that era.

  

  Alyssa Milano
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• I have met Mariah before and she's really cool and so funny. Everyone has been given the wrong impression of her, and maybe it is her doing. But you have to remember that celebrities are always in the spotlight and are sometimes forced to conduct themselves in a different way than they normally do. That's how it is in the business. I have met artists who are real divas, but Mariah Carey is not one of them. She is a very sweet person, and what nobody sees off camera is the real person she is on the inside.

  

  Janet Jackson
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• We are sure the upshot of her visit will be not only a narrowing of our positions on many international problems but also a new impulse to the development of our relations, ... Both sides are trying for exactly that.

  

  Igor Ivanov
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• All rituals are paradoxical and dangerous enterprises, the traditional and improvised, the sacred and the secular. Paradoxical because rituals are conspicuously artificial and theatrical, yet designed to suggest the inevitability and absolute truth of their messages. Dangerous because when we are not convinced by a ritual we may become aware of ourselves as having made them up, thence on the paralyzing realization that we have made up all our truths; our ceremonies, our most precious conceptions and convictions - all are mere inventions.

  

  Barbara Myerhoff
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• I was the first businessman to say, 'You should give tax benefit to only small companies. You should say your profits are exempt to a limit of Rs. 50 crore or so, but beyond that, you should pay taxes.' I have been arguing with successive finance ministers on this.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
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• He who steals a hook shall be hanged; while he who steals the state shall be crowned as prince.

  

  Lao Tzu
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• You don't think about anything because you just try to playevery game, every point. If you get some chance, you try to take this chance.

  

  Nikolay Davydenko
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• I listen to my old records and I think, 'How did I ever get on the radio?'

  

  Dolly Parton
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• Convictions, in the end, they can be dangerous, but a world without them is just kind of an awful kind of gray, amorphous mass.

  

  Bono U2
  • Dangerous
  • Mass
  • Convictions