Bono (Paul David Hewson) Quotes
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Every time I put on high heels, I think: 'Well, I'll fall over today.' Almost always, I don't. Almost. But all high-heel-wearing women live in constant peril.
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I get asked this a lot: Why has soccer not succeeded? My answer is, soccer has succeeded. It is already the fastest growing youth participation sport in the U.S. It has already succeeded at the youth level, no question.
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I feel blessed and humbled that people have loved my music. Nothing would be possible without their acceptance.
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We are shallow because we are 'mayabang,' ego driven, and do not have the humility to understand that we are only human, much too human to mistake knowledge for wisdom.
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I love all things Christmas.
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In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
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Dyeing my hair has become a kind of addiction. I can't see myself as anything other than blond. Once you go blond, you stay blond forever.
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I have a dress-up chest at home. I love to create this fantasy kind of thing.
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The most irresistible charm of youth is its bubbling enthusiasm. Youth sees no darkness ahead - no defile that has no outlet - it forgets that there is such a thing as failure in the world and believes that mankind has been waiting all these centuries for him to come and be the liberator of truth and energy and beauty.
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I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.
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Over the next decade, there will be disruption as significant as the Internet was for publishing, where blockchain is going to disrupt dozens of industries, one being capital markets and Wall Street.
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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 latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
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If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch.
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My favorite novels allow me to imagine the characters afterward and what happened, and that I've witnessed a really great story, where the world goes on.
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If I could play drums like Patrick Carney or Taylor Hawkins, I'd be a really happy person.
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My eyes aren't special, my nose isn't special, my mouth isn't special.
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Intimate scenes on a movie set are just dry, bizarre things; people standing around.
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[I wish no one ever asked me ] "Did you sign that petition implicating the Bush Administration in 9/11?" Because I never signed it, and I hate being vilified for a controversial idea I never espoused.
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They are supposed to be dispassionate dispensers of Pure Justice, icy islands of emotionless calculation. In short, umpires should be acute Republicans.
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I almost took a job in Italy. It was really a great opportunity, but they didn't think I had enough international experience.
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Every single minute matters, every single child matters, every single childhood matters.
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Many slaves on this continent are oppressed, and their cries have reached the ears of the Most High. Such are the purity and certainty of his judgments, that he cannot be partial in our favor.
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The job of art is to chase ugliness away.
