Bono (Paul David Hewson) Quotes

I will admit that we are attracted to issues that unify people rather than divide them.

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• My parents never understood why I didn't want to be a doctor or lawyer. They're Cuban immigrants who wanted to give their children the American dream, and, to them, that was more of what 'the dream' entailed.

  

  Narciso Rodriguez
  • Children
  • Why
  • American

• I am always the one who is responsible for anything bad that happens in Indian cricket. Everything that happens is because of me.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Responsible
  • Cricket
  • Indian

• I had never used the prefix 'Dr.' with my name, but when I started with NASA, I had to. Otherwise, I could not get past the secretaries.

  

  Nancy Roman
  • Past
  • Never
  • Name

• The image of the unions is still not in tune with where we actually are, which is fifty-fifty men and women, with an increasing number of women at the top. I think it is changing, but I'm not complacent about this.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Men
  • Women
  • Think

• As someone who is in awe and grateful every day to be in a country where freedom of the press, free speech and free elections are a way of life, I am wowed, amazed and excited by the opportunity to moderate a 2012 presidential debate.

  

  Candy Crowley
  • Life
  • Country
  • Free

• I could imagine actually being a scientist or a detective, but not a detective who puts his hands into gory, bloody things. But more like someone who figures things out. I like to figure things out.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • Like
  • Hands
  • Imagine

• The only thing that I discovered very early on is that, even though we might change schools and cities and towns and states, the books in the library were the same. They had the same covers. They had the same characters. I could go and visit those people in the library as if I knew them.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • People
  • Change
  • Same

• ABBA: The Movie; I got a lot of grief for working on that.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
  • Movie
  • Working
  • Grief

• A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • Peace
  • Always
  • Conqueror

• I always start with emotion. That's where I start all of my improvisations, on the piano. I always start with the mood or the feel of where I am in that moment.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Moment
  • Emotion
  • Piano

• As preachers of the gospel of Jesus, do not expect worldly honors: these Jesus Christ neither took to himself, nor gave to his disciples.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • Jesus
  • Christ
  • Expect

• I think that ISIS is a threat to our embassy, to our consulate, as well as potentially to the American people.

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • American
  • Think

• There's nothing better than achieving your goals, whatever they might be.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Better
  • Goals
  • Achieving

• To wait for hours to buy a train ticket or to see a doctor is accepted as a normal way of doing things. Privacy is not a great preoccupation, and this is a very crowded country.

  

  Nancy Travis
  • Great
  • Country
  • Train

• With a few exceptions, birds are not to be trusted; it is not normal to have such soft, vulnerable bodies bookended with slashing beaks and razor-sharp claws. It is as unnatural as an armed marshmallow.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Normal
  • Birds
  • Few

• Much of our brainpower goes unused, and many people could benefit greatly from optimizing their mental assets.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • People
  • Many
  • Mental

• Reliable data on the outsourcing of American jobs is sorely missing from the debate on globalization.

  

  Dan Lipinski
  • American
  • Missing
  • Debate

• Friend of mine, a smart journalist, had his iPad stolen. He couldn't help that - the thief broke into his house. But his private, personal data wasn't stolen, exactly. Donated, more like. He had no passcode set on the iPad.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Help
  • House
  • Friend

• When I sang my father's songs in concert, that was all people wanted to hear. I was always asking myself, 'Can I measure up?'

  

  Natalie Cole
  • People
  • Up
  • Father

• Hey, think fast!' I just looked at Fave as he chucked the basketball at me with possibly the worst overhand throw I'd ever seen. It landed to my far right, then bounced past me, banging against my dad's truck. 'Do you have a vision problem of something?' I asked him. 'Just keeping you on your toes,' he replied

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Thinking
  • Problem
  • Basketball

• A is for Alibi, my first book, was published in 1982. As it happened the next couple of books took place in June and August of that year. Without meaning to I painted myself into a corner. The other issue was the aging process. I did not want my main character to age one year for every book so I slowed the whole process down. This way I could get through all 26 letters of the alphabet without making her 109 years old in 2015. I might end the series in either 1990 or on New Years Eve 1989.

  

  Sue Grafton
  • Issues
  • Letters
  • June

• Judaism is interesting in that there is something there that I think you just can't understand if you're not a Jew - it moves into a realm of true mystery.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • True
  • Interesting
  • Mystery

• I had always thought that the 'good,' and the 'bad' and the 'violent' did not exist in any absolute, essential sense. It seemed to me interesting to demystify these adjectives in the setting of a Western. An assassin can display a sublime altruism while a good man can kill with total indifference.

  

  Sergio Leone
  • Good
  • Man
  • Interesting

• I will admit that we are attracted to issues that unify people rather than divide them.

  

  Bono U2
  • Issues
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