Bono (Paul David Hewson) Quotes

Rock music is niche.

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• There is no rational reason to doubt that the universe has existed indefinitely, for an infinite time. It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago.

  

  Hannes Alfven
  • Time
  • Universe
  • Doubt

• Anyone who's trying to be there for their family and trying to take care of their children is a hero to me.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Children
  • Trying
  • Family

• Our children think our world will end. It's a tragic thing. Adults don't think that. They don't see that we are eating the planet. But we are. If you take all the biomass of vertebrates on the planet, 98% are men and their domestic animals. All the wild animals in the world make up only 2%.

  

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand
  • Up
  • World
  • Men

• If you aren't please tell me how you are going to not have a war.

  

  Samantha Smith
  • War
  • Tell
  • Please

• Scarlett Johansson was wonderful in 'Lost in Translation,' and then, seemingly within a couple of weeks, she became completely Hollywoodised. I was shocked. I didn't recognise her. I hope to God it's just a phase.

  

  Ian Holm
  • God
  • She
  • Hope

• To me, torture would be watching sports on television.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Sports

• Most people call something profound, not because it is near some important truth but because it is distant from ordinary life. Thus, darkness is profound to the eye, silence to the ear; what-is-not is the profundity of what-is.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • People
  • Life
  • Important

• I came to Notre Dame to renew the winning tradition.

  

  Ara Parseghian
  • Winning

• When you are too specific on a target, it can drain you. Ask me where I will be when I am 60, and I will have no answer to give.

  

  Christian Louboutin

• Moveon is not a one-way broadcast media. The Internet, when used best, is a two-way media. We have a forum in which people can post comments and those comments can be rated. We get a sense of what people feel most passionately about.

  

  Joan Blades
  • People

• I didn't really take a lot of any on-camera classes or anything like that. I really just threw all of my energy into auditioning, and I know that I basically just did things based on feedback that I would get.

  

  Christine Woods
  • Energy

• Legislators and judges are necessarily exposed to all the temptations of money, fame, and power, to induce them to disregard justice between parties, and sell the rights, and violate the liberties of the people. Jurors, on the other hand, are exposed to none of these temptations.

  

  Lysander Spooner
  • People
  • Money
  • Power

• My mother and my father have always supported me. Now in their eighties, they actually clamor onto the tour bus with me once or twice a year so they can watch the performances and hear the crowds. Traveling with eighty-something-year-olds on a tour bus... there has to be some sort of reality show in that.

  

  Jeff Dunham
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Reality

• I just waited tables three nights a week to cover the bases.

  

  Lennon Parham

• Nobody played instruments in my family. My father got that bug and said he wants his son to play saxophone.

  

  Clarence Clemons
  • Family
  • Father
  • Son

• I became a director just for the love of movies, because of the power of cinema.

  

  Antoine Fuqua
  • Power

• It's not the destination that matters. It's the change of scene.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music

• My wife, Fionnuala, and I have been married for more than 20 years.

  

  Enda Kenny
  • Wife

• The audience has spoken. They want stories. They’re dying for them. They’re rooting for us to give the right thing. And they will talk about it, binge on it, carry it with them on the bus and to the hairdresser, force it on their friends, tweet, blog, Facebook, make fan pages, silly GIFs, and god knows what else about it..

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • God
  • Friends
  • Giving

• I grew up during the Communist time. When I was a student and I especially wanted to play rock, that was a problem for all rock musicians in the Soviet Union. My friends liked it, but all the Communist officials, bureaucrats, teachers, didn't like this. There was very powerful propaganda against capitalism and the Western ideology. Everything that was connected to the West - rock music, jeans, long hair, loud music - everything was not allowed. But luckily that's now in the past. I hope

  

  Albert Kuvezin
  • Past
  • Communist
  • Rock Music

• Geniuses are at work in the rock music field, and great popularity is no proof you aren't good.

  

  Christopher Ricks
  • Good
  • Popularity
  • Geniuses

• Rock music is niche.

  

  Bono U2
  • Niche
  • Rock Music