Bono (Paul David Hewson) Quotes

Every age has its massive moral blind spots. We might not see them, but our children will.

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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.

  

  C. J. Box
  • People
  • Real
  • Children

• I've never been a partier.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Never
  • Been

• You have to find out how to become the character.

  

  Kara Hayward
  • Character
  • You
  • Find

• I'm not the type of person that is forced.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Person
  • Type
  • Forced

• 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.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Mother
  • Feeling
  • Stories

• I am sure that the party system is right and necessary. There must be some scum.

  

  A. P. Herbert
  • Party
  • Right
  • System

• People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • People
  • Me
  • Beauty

• I don't normally vote. I'm lazy and I never bought into the 'Every vote counts.'

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Never
  • Vote
  • Lazy

• I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Away
  • Pass

• 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.

  

  Otto Dix
  • Time
  • Art
  • Effort

• Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.

  

  Abraham Cowley
  • Curiosity
  • Devotion
  • Less

• There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Life
  • Happiness
  • Meaningful

• TV has grown so much. It is like a powerhouse medium.

  

  Ram Kapoor
  • Like
  • TV
  • Medium

• We tell applicants, 'If you don't intend to be here for life, you needn't apply.'

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • Life
  • You
  • Here

• 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.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • World
  • Art
  • Worry

• I love working with the right actor, and if the right actor happens to be unknown, that should be allowed, too, I think.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Actor
  • Right
  • Working

• Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Happiness
  • Everyday
  • Self

• If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • Today
  • Year
  • Memory

• Me, I just don't care about proprietary software. It's not 'evil' or 'immoral,' it just doesn't matter. I think that Open Source can do better, and I'm willing to put my money where my mouth is by working on Open Source, but it's not a crusade – it's just a superior way of working together and generating code.

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • Money
  • Together
  • Evil

• In high school, girls started wearing high-waisted pants with their shirts tucked into them. I don't get what that's about.

  

  Dylan O'Brien
  • School
  • High

• Most businesses -- like most of anything else in life -- fall somewhere between mediocre and good. Few are great. When you compare great companies with good ones, many widely practiced business norms turn out to correlate with mediocrity, not greatness. So, then, why would we want to import the practices of mediocrity into the social sectors?

  

  James C. Collins
  • Life
  • Good
  • Great

• There are few things more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own.

  

  Doug Larson
  • Children

• A writer of books has to admit that film is the enemy, and that in my case I have been sleeping with the enemy.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Enemy

• Every age has its massive moral blind spots. We might not see them, but our children will.

  

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