Bono (Paul David Hewson) Quotes
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In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.
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In the electronic game world, I know I have a reputation for doing the cyberpunk thing, and for doing the serious epic fantasy thing, but if you go back to when I was a kid, I've been a Disney fan all my life.
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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Whenever I'm free, I spend time with people I love, people that inspire me in many different ways.
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I'm not sensitive, I'm not a weepy person.
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I envy those who can wear red lipstick or any bold lip colour, really. My top lip just doesn't seem to take colour - there's nothing I can do to change that, so I usually just use a nude on the bottom lip.
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I think people live in the past and tend to look that way, because they drop off when they're happiest and most successful.
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At every election, my vote goes to the candidate less likely to declare war. You're dropping hugely expensive pieces of exploding metal on a population. America deserves the president it gets, whether the country votes for them or allows their vote to be stolen, and the least we can do is to elect someone who won't do that to other people.
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I'm committed to the goal of Senate Bill 324, and that is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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I am busier now than I ever imagined I would be, but I feel blessed in that I have found what I am supposed to be doing with my life. It's wonderful to tell stories and have people listen to them.
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The moral argument is that we give big business a huge tax break, and why do we do it? To get their jobs.
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I'm not into solos, I'm into lyrics.
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When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
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I have always been interested in design, but in the beginning I didn't set out to make jewelry specifically.
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I like an even-keeled, slow-paced job.
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The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.
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When I began writing, I didn't read any other children's poets... I didn't want to be influenced until I'd found my own voice. Now I read them all.
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A lecturer once told me I could never be a director. I was 16. I believed him.
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I regret not having more children. I would have loved to have had a bigger family.
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Our tree is actually a tree of the short-term interest rate. The average direction in which the short-term interest rate moves depends on the level of the rate. When the rate is very high, that direction is downward; when the rate is very low, it is upward.
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I don't drink any more than the man next to me, and the man next to me is Dean Martin.
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In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen.
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To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
