Bono (Paul David Hewson) Quotes
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Advertising is what you do when you can't go see somebody. That's all it is.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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I do not consider the Lisbon Treaty to be a good thing for Europe, for the freedom of Europe, or for the Czech Republic.
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The fact is that since you're a divine creation who originated in the world of Spirit, you have exactly the right amount of smarts to accomplish all that you need and want to do while you're here on earth. It's all perfect... and so are you!
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We all have our strengths and our failings.
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I'm just trying to win games and give my team a chance, win as many as we can week in and week out.
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People still think of me as a cartoonist, but the only thing I lift a pen or pencil for these days is to sign a contract, a check, or an autograph.
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I had a passport where I wrote 'artist' under 'occupation' and I remember thinking, 'That's it, it's proved!'
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One drawing demands to become a painting, so I start to work on that, and then the painting might demand something else. Then the painting might say, 'I want a companion, and the companion should be like this,' so I have to find that, either by drawing it myself or locating the image.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
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I think the first thing you should know is that nobody in country music 'made it' the same way. It's all different. There's no blueprint for success, and sometimes you just have to work at it.
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I was doing quite well in Malaysia... Everyone was so excited about my music, and they started accepting me as an artist.
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'Twin Peaks' was huge. I mean, it changed television; it was a huge hit, and it only went a season and a half. So that teaches you immediately that you just enjoy it for the time that you do it.
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I finished the recordings I had started with Eleven. Matt Cameron joined for the rest of those sessions.
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I think that when you are on a four-inch balance beam, you don't care about laughing or smiling or waving to the crowd because you're going to be down in a second.
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No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.
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I like Louis C.K., Chris Rock. Old schools like Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy.
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The colonial period has been the proving ground in America for the new social history, which concentrates on the ordinary doings of ordinary people rather than on high culture and high politics. Unfortunately ordinary people, almost by definition, leave behind only faint traces of their existence.
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If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
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The main thing for inner contentment is to be in a state of grace. And there is an artistic state of grace, for art is a kind of religion.
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Now I'm seen by more people in one episode than I was in 20 years of theatre and movies. It's gratifying to have an impact on 25 million people a night, but I can say goodbye to my lunch-pail life as a working actor. I'm scared I might be a celebrity.
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I think particularly in music, popularity os a very fickle thing. You're only as good as your last song.
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I remember how my mother would bring us to chapel on Sundays... and my father used to wait outside. One of the things that I picked up from my father and my mother was the sense that religion often gets in the way of God. For me, at least, it got in the way.
