Bono (Paul David Hewson) Quotes
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Jealousy is the worst trait in any person.
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I have been dealing with claims that I cheated and had an unfair advantage in winning my seven Tours since 1999.
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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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I don't see myself as someone that brings a lot of luggage.
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Here is the dirty little secret about anti-abortion violence: It works.
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I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.
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The Self of everyone, the Atma of everyone, the transcendental field of reality of everyone, is the same in everyone. Whether the body calls itself an American, German, Indian or Chinese, it doesn't matter.
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The most difficult thing to do is drama.
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When the Spirit is present, people are not offended when you share your feelings about the gospel.
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My dear girl, you must cultivate a taste for the finer things. Civilized pleasures give meaning to life.
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I have had some sorry-ass looks, but I'm the first one to laugh. I'm either to credit or to blame for the '80s.
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I've always wanted to do a family movie.
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For we cannot adequately understand 'man' as an isolated biological creature, as a bundle of reflexes or a set of instincts, as an 'intelligible field' or a system in and of itself. Whatever else he may be, man is a social and an historical actor who must be understood, if at all, in close and intricate interplay with social and historical structures
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I'll not punish you for having an imagination.
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Before you tell me what you teach and preach, show me how you live and give.
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Everything must be free to be written and published without restraint.
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Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones.
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Women will do anything Oprah Winfrey says, and that is why we can't have women voting.
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Self-respect to be nourished in the mind of the pupil, is one of the most valuable results of a well conducted education.
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[On her morphine addiction:] I was meant to 'taper off.' At times I felt such pains as must afflict a creature while a bigger beast eats and claws at its middle. God-awful things were hiding underneath my bed, and it was no use telling me they were not there - I knew they were, and felt their dreadful ever-changing shapes.
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There's nothing hippie about my picture of Christ. The Gospels paint a picture of a very demanding, sometimes divisive love, but love it is.
