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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I am grateful to theatre for making me what I am today. But it's not like theatre is my first love. I am equally attached to cinema, which is, actually, a child of theatre, since it borrows heavily from it.
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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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The life of a revolutionary would be quite impossible without a certain amount of 'fatalism.'
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If you weren't on Chris Economaki's radar screen, you probably weren't on anybody's.
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When we look at the flowers, we suddenly forget so many important things. We forget that all flowers die. We forget that winter will come again. We forget that nothing really endures and that, like the flowers that die at the end of the growing season, we'll join them in the cold ground.
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We have a lot of great hospitals in America, across the country.
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America may be the best country, but that's like being the prettiest Denny's waitress. Just because you're the best doesn't mean you're good.
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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.
