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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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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Having a very serious thematic element in the lyrics and then juxtaposing with something really triumphant and just a big beat to dance to is a nice contrast to having a dark message.
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The willingness to be self-critical in England is much greater than the willingness to be self-critical in America.
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The European Union will never see America, or an American president, as a risk.
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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.
