Bono (Paul David Hewson) Quotes
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The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
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I don't know how to read. I get all my news from Jon Stewart every day.
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I thought I knew how to work out before I immersed myself into boxing. I now know what an extreme workout really is.
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Do your job; be the best at whatever your job description is.
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You can get awful famous in this country in seven days.
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With its imagination and large sales, Apple has become the world's most valuable IT company. However people are starting to have doubts regarding Apple's silence on heavy metal pollution problems.
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I think confidence does come with time, and I've been really surprised by that, actually.
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I'd love to meet the right girl and have a family. I'm very broody.
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I spent two years figuring out how I could turn it into something that would satisfy me as a musician but also make some kind of cross-cultural link. I feel that I kind of at least touched on the possibilities of cross-cultural music, but it is a lifetime's work, and I don't profess to be anything other than a novice at it.
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In this culture, where entertainers and athletes wield such power, it seems only right to me that they try to make their influence a good one.
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PG-13 horror, I just don't watch that.
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Babies choose to lackadaisically notice the quirkiest of details - unlike us grown ups, who choose instead to focus on what we believe is most essential to us. As a result, babies have a greater expanded consciousness than us grown-ups!
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When I wrote 'Mushaboom', I was living in the second verse, but I suddenly found myself in the first.
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Life isn't easy, and leadership is harder still.
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That every person is desirous to obtain, with as little sacrifice as possible, as much as possible of the articles of wealth.
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I am not God. Nor am I Phantom. I am ready to accept any criticism. I have been in politics for decades. Each and every day, in several media, there is criticism of me.
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I have an obsession with hot sauce. I love Cholula. I put Cholula on everything.
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A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men.
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Spelling mistakes in a letter is like a bug on a white shirt.
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Behind a remarkable scholar we not infrequently find an average human being, and behind an average artist we often find a very remarkable human being.
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I think what really separates artists from the rest of the world is that artists feel like they have permission to keep exploring and expressing their process. Most people censor that because they don't think it's good enough. Everything is measured against this patriarchal hierarchy of value, as if one person's singing voice is more important than another's.
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You see a Donald Trump on TV, just like you'd see Joan Rivers on TV when she was living, and you see a real person. That's the Donald Trump that I know.
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I think carrying moral baggage is very dangerous for an artist. If you have a duty, it's to be true and not cover up the cracks.
