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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They have assumed the names and gestures of their enemies, but have held on to their own, secret souls; and in this there is a resistance and an overcoming, a long outwaiting.
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I’ll give you one thing to mull over, though. If the body’s such a valueless piece of pork, and we’ll all meet each other in the sweet bye and bye, and so on, why’re you busting every gut you own to get back to your wife?
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I don't understand the theory that nonprofit hospitals that run at forty percent capacity and do not pay taxes should be granted some special privilege. I like level playing fields.
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I don't think we should do anything that should make the people hate the American people more.
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Every day is a good day to be alive, whether the sun's shining or not.
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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.
