Bono (Paul David Hewson) Quotes
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I love to feature children and young adults as real people - flawed, naive, virtuous, venal - but real. I think it adds nuance and depth to the stories that wouldn't exist without them.
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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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I'm not the type of person that is forced.
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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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People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?
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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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The temple of art is built in words.
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I'm not against Flash, and I love the work that people such as Joshua Davis do.
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America is two Mack trucks colliding on a superhighway because all the drivers are on amphetamines.
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Every age has its massive moral blind spots. We might not see them, but our children will.
