Bono (Paul David Hewson) Quotes
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I don't feel I'm qualified to be a coach outside the high school level. I think I would need to do more education to really be a good coach.
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A man of knowledge chooses a path with a heart and follows it and then he looks and rejoices and laughs and then he sees and knows.
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So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.
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At the end of the day, every decision I make about my music is about creating a collective.
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Matt Weiner is very perceptive; there's something about the rhythms and the way people speak that is very authentic to the actor. But there are qualities that are dissimilar. The characters on 'Mad Men' are struggling with pretty profound unhappiness, but I can tell you this is a happy bunch.
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I love parties. I love a good time.
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Sometimes you lose sight of what's going on around you.
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I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.
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Anybody that believes that a country can be maintained that has no ethnic core to it or no linguistic core to it, I believe, is naive in the extreme.
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I'm attempting to put myself in a bottle that will one day wash up on the beach for my children.
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Everything that I design I would wear myself.
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I like to do my own make-up.
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I try and groom myself, be it through fitness or dance.
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But then, even with sex, I'm more in the school of less is more in movies.
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Whether labeled as such or not, I think every book I've ever written has been, more or less, a romantic suspense. I have always put tremendous effort into making each book a page turner: The harder it is for the reader to put it down, the better I've done my job.
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I used to love to draw. I didn't want to go to art class because I felt that would be too corny when I was young, but architectural drafting was the cool thing to do because there was more precision. It taught me a lot about building and structures and doorways and frames and windowsills.
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When sustainability is viewed as being a matter of survival for your business, I believe you can create massive change.
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My family is full of musicians, and a couple of times a year we get together and jam at my cousin's studio. We improvise and have a great time.
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There is a huge body of evidence showing that people do better in their work when they know why they're doing it in the first place. They do better when they see what they're doing contributes to something in the world.
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The best party I've ever attended in my life was courtesy of Marshall Mathers. There were basically six guys and 70 girls there.
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I was from a poor Jewish family in the South Bronx. My father was a plumber, but when I was 16, he got sick and I had to take over. Being a plumber in the South Bronx wasn't fun.
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My dad has been in the fight against monopoly since it wasn't so cool. I'm sure I've turned to the subject to please him, though I think he might consider some of my arguments a little flamethrowing for his tastes.
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But there is a difference between cozying up to power and being close to power.
