Bono (Paul David Hewson) Quotes
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The use of slave women as day workers naturally broke up or made impossible the normal Negro home, and this and the slave code led to a development of which the South was really ashamed and which it often denied, and yet perfectly evident: the raising of slaves in the Border slave states for systematic sale on the commercialized cotton plantations.
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I love to come in and play with a wig or glasses or clothes. I love using props. I'm from the Peter Sellers school of trying to prepare for the character.
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For every benefit conferred, God is to be praised in his gifts. Otherwise when the time of judgment comes, that man will be punished as an ingrate who cannot say to God: 'Your statutes were my song in the land of exile.'
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Do you know why dogs are man's best friend? It's because they're not in politics.
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The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.
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It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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I'd probably put myself in the top 1% in knowledge of blight in the city of Detroit.
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I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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A writer without a reader doesn't exist.
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I don't know, the word 'famous' just sounds really weird to me, because I'm just me.
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I'm a stand-up. I'm never worried about getting my next role. That's never distressing to me.
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I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.
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The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter.
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Republicans think that the NAACP is the only voice in the black community. It is a voice in the black community. But it's not the only voice.
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I believe implicitly that every young man in the world is fascinated with either sharks or dinosaurs.
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I'm not afraid to die - it's just that I had so much left to do in this world.
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When I go to a film, you're taking it easy and you let things wash over you. That's what cinema's all about. You get involved in a world that's being created in front of you.
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There are many evils in this country. The only remedy for every one of them is freedom for the nation.
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Jesus, Jesus help me. I'm alone in this world.
