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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I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.
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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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It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.
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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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It's difficult for me to feel that a solid page without the breakups of paragraphs can be interesting. I break mine up perhaps sooner than I should in terms of the usage of the English language.
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I used to be affected by criticism thrown at me, and I would get really down. But I got to a point where I just decided to go for it, no matter what negativity is around you.
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The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.
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Probably the best caddies are the smartest ones and the ones that are switched on mentally more than some of the others maybe.
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It's not the situation, but whether we react negative or respond positive to the situation that is important.
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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.
