Bono (Paul David Hewson) Quotes

You see, idealism detached from action is just a dream. But idealism allied with pragmatism, with rolling up your sleeves and making the world bend a bit, is very exciting. It's very real. It's very strong.

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• As a queen, I speak about unity and respect. I think that is the most important thing.

  

  Gabriela Isler
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• I've been with my husband and friends for so long, I've forgotten what is unappealing to new people.

  

  Olivia Colman
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• I'm very active, wild woman.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
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• A certain administration which I won't call by name took the arts out of the schools, and that left the brothers out on the street with nothing, so they went to the turntables and started rhyming. Then they had a way to express themselves, and that's the birth of hip-hop.

  

  Isaac Hayes
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• I just like to stay busy, and I like to work with interesting people.

  

  Adam Schlesinger
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• When you're lucky enough to have a good film made of your novel - and 'Never Let Me Go' is, believe me, a heartbreakingly good film indeed - you get wonderfully talented individuals each focusing on their special area.

  

  Kazuo Ishiguro
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• I can't think of anything right now that could be more damaging for our economy than passing and putting into effect and implementing Obamacare.

  

  John Fleming

• One of the most powerful scientific tools ever invented is the telephone.

  

  John C. Mather
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• The green things of this world are just wondrous, aren’t they?” his mother went on. “We work so hard to get rid of them when sometimes they’re the very thing that saves us.

  

  Patrick Ness
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• You sell yourself. The part that I sell is the creature. The adorable part.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
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• The question of who will win the elections has already been decided. The test now is whether we will be strong enough to do what we want and for this we need as many seats as possible.

  

  Ehud Olmert
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• I believe you might want to say something. I've never seen you at a loss for words.

  

  Charlie Daniels
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• The days of the digitals are numbered. The metaphor is built into them like a self-destruct mechanism.

  

  Tom Stoppard
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• Synergies are something that the CEO basically has to force to happen, because organizations are, generally, like bodies in motion that tend to stay in motion. It's very hard to get big organizations to change. And it takes really a very powerful mandate to force things to happen.

  

  John C. Malone
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• My mind is incapable of conceiving such a thing as a soul. I may be in error, and man may have a soul; but I simply do not believe it.

  

  Charles Edison
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• Working on 'The War Room' was a thrill, not only because we were given such exquisite access to the nerve center of Bill Clinton's first presidential campaign, but for me personally, it was so exciting to be producing my first film and working with documentary filmmaking legends D.A. Pannebaker and Chris Hegedus, who were the film's directors.

  

  R. J. Cutler
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• The nice thing about a series is you can end on cliffhangers all the time. You can be like, 'You know what? Here we go, this person just died, end of book.' And with the end of the series, you're very conscious of all the plotlines that were left hanging. There's a balance there to wrap those up but still leave it exciting.

  

  Richelle Mead
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• I know right now she has no idea who I am, but I'd like to collaborate with Enya one day. Of course I'd love to work with Jay-Z, maybe even Phil Collins. I love his voice.

  

  Nicki Minaj
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• You see, idealism detached from action is just a dream. But idealism allied with pragmatism, with rolling up your sleeves and making the world bend a bit, is very exciting. It's very real. It's very strong.

  

  Bono U2
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