Bono (Paul David Hewson) Quotes

Sadly, I do my homework. I've a soft spot for the boring minutiae. I read the Charter of the United Nations before meeting with Kofi Annan. I read the Meltzer report, and then I'll read C. Fred Bergsten's defense of institutions like the World Bank and the I.M.F. It's embarrassing to admit.

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• Ever since childhood, when I found out that the ultimate fate for all humans was death, sheer terror and morbid curiosity had been fighting for supremacy in my mind.

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • Mind
  • Death
  • Fighting

• DMs are a lot like email - and should have the same privacy protections as a mailed letter.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Same
  • Privacy
  • E-mail

• I oscillate between being cynical and being naive on a regular basis. I always think that not much shocks me until something much too obvious does.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Think
  • Obvious
  • Cynical

• One of my favorite snacks is Chobani yogurt with Bear Naked granola, because it has all the nutrients I need; it's all-natural, and it has a lot of protein.

  

  Hannah Kearney
  • Favorite
  • Bear
  • Naked

• Families don't make projects for five years, they make projects for generations.

  

  Achille Maramotti
  • Years
  • Generations
  • Five

• You think, 'Musicals, they must always be romantic' - You'd be surprised how few of them historically have ever been romantic.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Think
  • Always
  • Romantic

• People look at rights as if they were muscles - the more you exercise them, the better they get.

  

  Antonin Scalia
  • People
  • Exercise

• I think I was always a class clown growing up and a funny kid. I never really knew how to channel that until I got into high school.

  

  Lauren Lapkus
  • Up
  • School
  • High

• For me, the most enjoyable type of singing is opera. It allows you to move, to wear a costume... to do something with your body. When singing in concert, you have to stand up in front of the audience, next to the conductor, which is less natural.

  

  Andrea Bocelli
  • Up
  • Singing

• On a personal level, I have no hard feelings towards the clubs that didn't want me.

  

  Antoine Griezmann

• I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things. The glass is always half-empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth.

  

  Janeane Garofalo
  • Dark

• Nature’s constantly screaming with all its shapes and scents: love each other! Love each other! Do as the flowers. There’s only love.

  

  Octave Mirbeau
  • Nature
  • Shapes
  • Screaming

• He has a bone bruise, plus he has a chip, which we cleaned out. We sat and talked to Brandon a long time. He is super important to us. We decided it was probably best for the team and for him, rather than to try and rush him back, to put him in IR.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Time
  • Important
  • Long

• MBAs know everything but understand nothing.

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • MBA

• My parents know I was outgoing as a child, and whenever people came over I'd automatically do impressions of them as soon as they left; it was my mom's favorite thing.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • People
  • Parents
  • Mom

• The power of yes: that's what allows creativity to breathe and to come in. That's what allows your ideas to become living, breathing, moving dreams in action.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Power
  • Dream
  • Action

• Stealing money from your parents - I feel like I did that a lot and I now know as an adult that your parents knew how much money they had. Nobody was being fooled.

  

  Cameron Esposito
  • Money
  • Parents
  • Nobody

• You can't expect to be on MTV and critique George Bush. You can't expect to be on BET or the cover of 'The Source' advocating Jesus Christ or Buddha or Hindu Krishna or Moses. As a conscious rap artist, you have to play in the arena that you're supposed to be in. What is that arena? That arena is the college market. The conscious rap artist woos the college market, even though the college market is the wildest, most sexed-out, drug-driven market in the country, possibly the world.

  

  Lawrence "Kris" Parker Boogie Down Productions
  • Country
  • College
  • Jesus

• Many men of science and poets have in their own manner, by various ways and means, and aided by others, sought unceasingly to create a more tolerable world for everyone.

  

  Eyvind Johnson
  • Science
  • Create
  • Poets

• I don't see any harm in letting whatever comes out come out of you, even if it's sort of weird, or dark, or painful, or too embarrassing, or whatever. I feel like you might as well get it down for yourself. It can't do anything but help you get to where you want to be by recognizing the thoughts that you're having.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Dark
  • Feels
  • Helping

• This [EURO] was never a hate group, the European American Unity and Rights Organization was an organization in its charter is dedicated to true civil rights and stopping discrimination against people, that the best qualified people should be engaged and that every people have the right to preserve their heritage, their freedom and their values.

  

  David Duke
  • People
  • Hate
  • Unity

• Sadly, I do my homework. I've a soft spot for the boring minutiae. I read the Charter of the United Nations before meeting with Kofi Annan. I read the Meltzer report, and then I'll read C. Fred Bergsten's defense of institutions like the World Bank and the I.M.F. It's embarrassing to admit.

  

  Bono U2
  • Report
  • Embarrassing
  • Homework