Bono (Paul David Hewson) Quotes
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We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
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In today's society we sometimes forget to balance our hearts and our heads; this is the reason we stop laughing.
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I always say, keep a diary and someday it'll keep you.
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I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.
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I do think that people outside the fashion industry imagine that being a model is what you might call quick, easy money, but it can be very lonely - you have to be quite tough. It's also very physically demanding.
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I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.
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There's no safe Republican district. You can run, but you cannot hide.
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I see that it is impossible to remember a long poem without practice and repetition; so is forgetfulness of the words of instruction engendered in the heart that has ceased to value them.
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I was raised Jewish and bar mitzvahed.
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Economics has paid a terrible price for its dalliances with the Keynesian and neoclassical theories.
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Syria is important because it lies at the heart of a region critical to U.S. security, a region that is home to friends and partners and one of our closest allies. It is important because the Syrian regime possesses stores of chemical weapons that they have recently used on a large scale and that we cannot allow to fall into terrorists' hands.
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I took a whole stunt course and pretty much got certified as a stunt driver. It's ridiculous how easy it is once you understand the car and know how to do it.
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It's often been observed that the first casualty of war is the truth. But that's a lie, too, in its way. The reality is that, for most wars to begin, the truth has to have been sacrificed a long time in advance.
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You are the music while the music lasts.
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I offer originality: you don't know what my films are like until you go to them. I think that's the reason I've been getting all this attention.
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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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In most daily journalism, you only fact-check something if it seems a little fishy.
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I get a great high from writing.
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When you write, it's just a much more crystalline, compressed version of the voice you think with - though not the one you speak with. I think your writing voice is your laser-guided missile. It's the poetry part of you.
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I don't need to be so full of myself that I feel I am without flaw. I can feel beautiful and imperfect at the same time. I have a healthy relationship with my aesthetic insecurities.
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The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.
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I like a man with a nice, self-deprecating sense of humour.
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My father danced a lot. He was called 'the French Fred Astaire.'
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Bowie was much more responsible for the aesthetic of punk rock than he's been given credit for, like, in fact, most interesting things in the Seventies and Eighties.
