Bono (Paul David Hewson) Quotes
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When I was on 'Trauma,' the first order was six, which turned to 12, and then there were rumors of getting cancelled. I'm used to that.
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But ya know what, I am a part of something that happened. I'm a part of the music that happened. My voice is one more instrument, is what it is. So that's the way I feel about people who play on sessions.
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I've had the good fortune of studying the 17th-century art of Amsterdam in preparation for a film.
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What I've learned is that people have a desire to talk after the first line of reporters go away, and they are no longer speaking out of shock.
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Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
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Over the next few years the boardrooms of America are going to light up with hot flashes.
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You shouldn't try to manufacture progress.
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To transform yourself is to transform your destiny.
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I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.
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I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art.
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I'm not a professional politician, I'm a problem solver.
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I do two months of strict dieting, so after fight night, I go for whatever my body is craving. It's usually sushi. But after that, I go home to Guadalajara and indulge in a lot of tacos before I have to start getting in shape for another fight.
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When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.
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Christmas cookies can't help but be retro - they are memory first, sugar-flour-egg-redhot-gumdrop-sparkle reality second.
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White folks hear the blues come out, but they don't know how it got there.
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The hour of the liberal interventionists like Hillary Clinton in Libya, like the neocons' hour of power in the GOP, is over.
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As a writer, one of the things we all learned from the movies was a kind of compression that didn't exist before people were used to watching films. For instance, if you wanted to write a flashback in a novel, you once had to really contextualize it a lot, to set it up. Now, readers know exactly what you're doing. Close-ups, too.
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You cannot be both unhappy and fully present in the Now.
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The way that Lucasfilm used ILM was George never restricted his thinking to things that he knew could be executed with the tools at the time. He would write what he thought would be cool and what he wanted from a storytelling standpoint with the assumption that, 'Well, they'll figure it out!'
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I used to love Kurt Cobain, when he was telling people we're a pop band. People would laugh, they thought of it as good old ironic Kurt. But he wasn't being ironic.
