Bono (Paul David Hewson) Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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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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True believers just don't see things the way they are, because if they did, they wouldn't be true believers anymore.
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Progress? It ought to be stopped, that's what I say. If the Lord meant chickens to come out of incubators he'd never have made hens, it stands to reason.
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Lebanon is a small country, weak, an army with very humble capabilities.
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Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?
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This building we're in has doors and windows. If we close the doors and windows, we can't get out. People lock themselves inside a house of delusions. But they're only delusions. They can leave anytime. Actually there is no house to leave. There's not even any leaving. What we see are flowers in the sky, the moon in the water. As for the meditative powers of Zen masters like Hsu-yun, sometimes it's useful to meditate and sometimes it isn't.
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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.
