Bono (Paul David Hewson) Quotes
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I love people with strong convictions, because we are living in a very PC world. You can't crack a joke without it being in the headlines.
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I still can't believe it when people say I am a celebrity.
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I am what I am and I'm a horrible liar. I can't do it. I'm just very candid.
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However, while the Nazi barbarians and their collaborators threatened the entire world, I could not accept his philosophy and, after several earlier attempts, was finally accepted into the Canadian Infantry Corps during the last year of World War II.
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Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.
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I dyed my hair pink when I was fifteen.
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I love making films, and as long as I love the subject, I just have a crazy amount of passion and energy for the project.
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I think there's no higher calling in terms of a career than public service, which is a chance to make a difference in people's lives and improve the world.
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It should be no surprise that religion in the non-western world has failed to disappear under the juggernaut of industrial capitalism, or that liberal democracy finds its most dedicated saboteurs among the new middle classes.
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I am deeply concerned with the diminution of the teaching strength of the country as a result of the disproportionately low salaries that are paid to teachers throughout the country.
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I know it's surprising, but there is a generation of people who haven't seen a Bond movie. They have no idea what it is. I want to entertain them as much as anyone else.
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I really feel my family is my priority.
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I formally proposed. I'm a good Southern gentleman.
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Take time to enjoy the flight - read a good book, watch a film, catch up on emails and sleep.
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Life isn't fair, and it isn't government's job to make life fair. But if you're not willing to give up on yourself, then we shouldn't give up on you, either.
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You can do more, you can always do more.
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Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.
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I find it very easy playing Bond. I think he's hilarious. He gets himself into some extraordinarily funny situations.
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People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties... they live like ants.
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I wanted to serve. It was Desert Storm. I thought, 'I was a rich kid, and America's been good to me.'
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I still have the desire to do the job of acting. It's just a matter of whether I'll be allowed to do the job of acting that remains to be seen. There are only so many brick walls that I'm willing to beat my head on.
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Twain's 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court' made me long to wake in an era when my Casio wristwatch would strike folks as sorcery, and Martin Amis's 'Time's Arrow' wrecked my assumption that all narratives had to proceed from Then to More-Recently-Than-Then.
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But more than anything else, for the British folks Irish people were all terrorists. So when we went to Britain, it was always a lot of resistance to U2. And that's why we came to America.
