Bono (Paul David Hewson) Quotes

My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ. Christ teaches that God is love.

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• As an actress, vanity is your enemy. If you're thinking about how you look, you're not going to give a good performance. Once I realized, 'Hmm, I guess I'm not that vain,' it's like something I wanted to protect. I can't imagine anyone could give the full dynamic performance they're capable of and still be vain.

  

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• Getting hit on by both genders is such a champagne problem.

  

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• There's always a theme I'm drawn to, that we humans are not good or bad. We're all a mixture of both. We can have great compassion or commit great violence.

  

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• One of the books I remember reading when I was young and always thought would be a great role to play is Catherine in 'Wuthering Heights.' I like the classics.

  

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• In some ways, the best novel about terrorism, though it's not a novel, is 'The Looming Tower' by Lawrence Wright or 'Perfect Soldiers' by Terry McDermott.

  

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• Here in Canada, in the Western world, we are inside the walls. Outside the walls are the barbarians.

  

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• What drives the creative person is that we see it all.

  

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• We are very near the final climactic events that end with the Second Coming of Christ.

  

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• I try to look at people like Adele and Norah Jones, who are very successful but don't have to deal with scandals.

  

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• I do probably come down a little hard on a group of people I call the 'blue chip gays.' I mean people who have managed to become very, very famous and are still very famous partly through staying in the closet, like Jasper Johns, Cy Twombly, Susan Sontag, Harold Brodkey and others.

  

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• I did make a choice when I got away from baseball to be there to get my kids off to college.

  

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• Design is about point of view, and there should be some sort of woman or lifestyle or attitude in one's head as a designer. So my being able to reach the masses was something that meant a great deal to me - especially for women who could never wear Vera Wang.

  

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• In a world of plenty, no one, not a single person, should go hungry. But almost 1 billion still do not have enough to eat. I want to see an end to hunger everywhere within my lifetime.

  

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• An artist has to go to every extreme, to stretch his sensibility through excess and suffering in order to feel and to communicate more. I have always been fascinated by blood. Pain can be vitalizing; it gives intensity in the place of vagueness and emptiness. If we don't suffer, how do we know that we live?

  

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• Je weiter ich lebe, desto nötiger scheint es mir, auszuhalten, das ganze Diktat des Daseins bis zum Schluss nachzuschreiben; denn es möchte sein, dass erst der letzte Satz jenes kleine, vielleicht unscheinbare Wort enthält, durch welches alles mühsam Erlernte und Unbegriffene sich gegen einen herrlichen Sinn hinüberkehrt.

  

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• It is very possible that a proper understanding of string theory will make the space-time continuum melt away.... String theory is a miracle through and through.

  

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• My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ. Christ teaches that God is love.

  

  Bono U2
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  • Christ
  • Teaches