Bono (Paul David Hewson) Quotes
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Body experience... is the centre of creation.
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Liberals are always proposing perfectly insane ideas, laws that will make everybody happy, laws that will make everything right, make us live forever, and all be rich. Conservatives are never that stupid.
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We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
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I'm married. I've been with my husband for six years. Now that I know what a healthy relationship is, I find I can write better about the unhealthiness of relationships.
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Obama has been well-received on the world stage, but that doesn't help him operate domestically.
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My songs are a mix of my own weird raised-by-wolves perspective and civilization.
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Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength.
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Every time a blast happens, people ask, 'But why would someone do this?' Weirdly, it hasn't been answered well anywhere - neither in fiction nor non-fiction.
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When girls are educated, you get effects that cascade throughout society.
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Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.
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A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.
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If you get depressed, you can be stuck for months; if you have an analyst, you at least have a chance of getting out of it faster.
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There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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One thing is clear to me: We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.
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Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
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What had disappointed me at the time of the last tour, was to go on a worldwide tour, we were at some incredible places and we couldn't enjoy it, hadn't the time.
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Technological discoveries are the spermatozoa of social change.
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Quite frankly, I don't miss standing in the box or standing on the field playing.
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When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl - and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to - which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage.
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I ain't want my kids to grow up and call me Thug. I don't want anybody to kind of look at me like that. So I'm gonna just use my real name.
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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I don't like the name, U2, actually.
