Bono (Paul David Hewson) Quotes
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All peoples have contributed to the overall progress and enhancement of human life.
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Not every woman has time to go to a salon and have her hair blow-dried every day.
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I developed my training routine going into my senior year at Jackson State. I found this sandbank by the Pearl River near my hometown, Columbia, Miss. I laid out a course of 65 yards or so. Sixty-five yards on sand is like 120 on turf, but running on sand helps you make your cuts at full speed.
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I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement.
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War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.
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I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.
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After so many years of rejection, I felt acting would have to become a hobby rather than a full-time profession.
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But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and I was a subject of myth, sort of like Grendel in Beowulf - you know, not seen very often but often talked about.
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It's easy not to bribe. But it's not so easy to keep a business running at the same time.
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I don't like Botox. It makes a very strange forehead.
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It was weird - writing is a stupid thing to do. I come up here in the morning to a pleasant room in the roof of my house and imagine I'm a black South American football superstar; then I have to imagine I'm a female pop celebrity who's pregnant. It's a completely mad way to spend your time.
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I wanted to be an academic when I was 19 or 20. But, I've gone off that idea. The lifestyle is kind of lonely and isolated. I don't think that would suit me.
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I'm over it. You strive to win a Super Bowl and you do everything you can to get there. But being in the Hall of Fame, you never play for that honor. It's incredible.
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I can't say 'I'm proud to say' - because it's not a choice for many Americans - but I can say I'm fortunate enough to not be raising my kids on McDonald's.
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I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine.
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Obama's ascendancy unhinged the radical right, offering a unified target to competing camps of racial, nativist and religious animus.
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My secret is just surrounding myself with people who are a lot funnier than me.
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I had been going around to everybody saying Katherine Heigl has to be 'Stephanie Plum', and then one day, I got that phone call saying that it was Katherine.
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Whatever one thinks of the wisdom of building a mosque near Ground Zero, this controversy now affords us an immense opportunity to examine who we are as a people. It provides us with the opportunity to get back to our foundational ideals, which have always stood as a beacon for the rest of the world.
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Most Icelandic people are really proud to be from there, and we don't have embarrassments like World War II where we were cruel to other people. We don't even have an army. So it's sort of like an all-around good, innocent place.
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It's neither my job nor within my capabilities to save people. But a book sure can try.
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Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don't know what to say, and I think music can be more eloquent than words.
