Bono (Paul David Hewson) Quotes
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I've never been a partier.
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You have to find out how to become the character.
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For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.
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I am sure that the party system is right and necessary. There must be some scum.
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I don't normally vote. I'm lazy and I never bought into the 'Every vote counts.'
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I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.
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All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order; order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time.
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There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.
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TV has grown so much. It is like a powerhouse medium.
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I worry about everything in the world, and it's just too much for anybody to think about, so I have my art as my consolation.
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I love working with the right actor, and if the right actor happens to be unknown, that should be allowed, too, I think.
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Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
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If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
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Korean students are hard working, talented, and they do what they need to do. They succeed in exams. They are highly motivated to succeed in tests.
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I like that Barack got that job.
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I pretty much preach, teach and nag.
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If I were to compare the Olympic decathlon to fatherhood, I would say fatherhood is a lot tougher.
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The Civil Rights Movement, it wasn't just a couple of, you know, superstars like Martin Luther King. It was thousands and thousands - millions, I should say - of people taking risks, becoming leaders in their community.
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Just because people play songs with great technique doesn't mean the records are better.
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We grew up in a very strange world, because my mother was up against it all when she had three black children.
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Several elementary school teachers had described me as a 'future authoress or poetess.' Mother took me to meet Chicago's leading black librarian, who published a poem of mine in the magazine she edited for Negro children.
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Our God who created all of us is the God who calls all of us to care for one another. I think that's going to be one of the big, big challenges of the future, helping refocus on the needs of others.
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My fans have always been so supportive, and several years ago, I realized that I could thank them by naming all my characters after my Twitter and Facebook fans.
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Every age has its massive moral blind spots. We might not see them, but our children will.
