Bono (Paul David Hewson) Quotes

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

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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.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Life
  • World
  • Game

• I make mistakes on a very grand scale.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Mistakes
  • Very
  • Scale

• Whenever I'm free, I spend time with people I love, people that inspire me in many different ways.

  

  Karolina Kurkova
  • People
  • Time
  • Love

• I'm not sensitive, I'm not a weepy person.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Person
  • Sensitive

• 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.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Change
  • Red
  • Envy

• I think people live in the past and tend to look that way, because they drop off when they're happiest and most successful.

  

  Patricia Norris
  • People
  • Live
  • Past

• 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.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • People
  • Country
  • America

• I'm committed to the goal of Senate Bill 324, and that is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Goal
  • Senate
  • Emissions

• 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.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • People
  • Life
  • Blessed

• The moral argument is that we give big business a huge tax break, and why do we do it? To get their jobs.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Why
  • Business
  • Moral

• I'm not into solos, I'm into lyrics.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Lyrics
  • Solos

• When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Guy
  • Want
  • Me

• I have always been interested in design, but in the beginning I didn't set out to make jewelry specifically.

  

  Paloma Picasso
  • Beginning
  • Design
  • Jewelry

• I like an even-keeled, slow-paced job.

  

  Washed Out
  • Job
  • Like

• The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.

  

  Van Morrison
  • You
  • Point
  • Jazz

• 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.

  

  Jack Prelutsky
  • Writing
  • Children
  • Voice

• A lecturer once told me I could never be a director. I was 16. I believed him.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • Me
  • Director
  • Him

• I think that both parties should declare the debt limit as a political weapon of mass destruction which can't be used. I mean, it is silly to have a country that has 237 years building up its reputation and then have people threaten to tear it down because they're not getting some other matter.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• I'd already decided I wanted to design shoes after I saw a sign in the Museum of African and Oceanic Art forbidding high heels. Well, who could resist?

  

  Christian Louboutin
  • Art
  • High
  • Design

• Hollywood is just a bunch of people going around in Learjets to other people asking them if they've got any money? Well, they might have if they didn't spend it all on jets.

  

  John Cusack
  • People
  • Money

• The actors I respect are the real character actors, who are the real chameleon actors that completely change from role to role. I love Peter Sellers, Alec Guinness and Gary Oldman. They tend to be British, I guess. People who really disappear and transform, I really like that.

  

  Fran Kranz
  • People
  • Respect
  • Like

• Anytime you get to join a group of people you admire and respect, you want to keep those doors open.

  

  James Wolk
  • People
  • Respect

• There is a vast need for all types of protest today, whether it be civil disobedience, or whether it be on a - more conventional variety.

  

  William Kunstler
  • Today
  • Variety
  • Protest

• To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

  

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  • Respect
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  • Great Thing