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 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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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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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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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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What I realized was how difficult an hour show is and how miserable you can be if you're not happy doing it.
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A vile and overbearing temper becomes sometimes, in one long accustomed to the exercise of power, unendurable to those who are subject to its humors.
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Yeah, it's a lot harder to find a musical partner than a love partner.
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A straight writer can write a gay novel and not worry about it, and a gay novelist can write about straight people.
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I think it's dangerous to prosecute people for their political views and their political associations. I think you prosecute people for what they do, for their acts.
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Future historians trying to determine what it was like to be alive in fin de millennium America should read the last two decades of O. Henry and Best American short-story collections.
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I hope America can also be the cultural leader of the world, and use this frontier spirit to lead and show others that we need courage to go places where we have not gone before.
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The magic kit we developed with Idea Village is an extraordinary success in 40,000 stores across America. The TV commercial we shot for it has produced amazing results - unbelievable.
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If you don't care for the villain, if you don't love him and hate him at the same time, then he's just boring.
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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.
