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 decided a long time ago to be myself and not worry too much about cultivating some kind of personality that didn't feel natural or true to who I am.
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When I go places, I'm very much spotted, but I'm definitely ready for it and the opportunities it's going to bring.
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I was 18 when I first started working at a restaurant. I was a dishwasher. I only got the job because I wanted to go to Ibiza for vacation, and washing dishes was the only job I could find.
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There are several times when I walked into a room and just felt like such a sham. That's the problem with auditioning.
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The job of art is to chase ugliness away.
