Bono (Paul David Hewson) Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
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Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existence of the distorting glass.
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If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken.
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I am obsessed with proportion, and how proportion is perceived.
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In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.
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As a working-class actor, leaving school with no qualifications, being a printer and then becoming an actor and then working with people who to a certain extent had had a leg up. I never had that advantage. It's less an artistic need to express myself and more a need to prove myself.
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Endurance in ministry is rooted in the eternal perspective. The absence of an eternal perspective makes you vulnerable to losing heart.
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If you have a great-sounding guitar that's a quality instrument and a good amp, and you know how to make the guitar talk, that's the key. It starts with the guitar and knowing what it should sound and feel like.
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I don't want to look back and say, 'Yeah, I was really successful, but I failed at fatherhood because I wasn't there.'
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We've got a great value proposition against Chromebooks, we are not ceding the market to anyone.
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Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.
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I eat super clean and am always watching what I eat.
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Once imbued with the idea of a mission, a great nation easily assumes that it has the means as well as the duty to do God's work.
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I'm obsessed with Marcus Mumford. I've got to know him recently; he's amazing.
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I did not come to NASA to make history.
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I feel good. I think everything went good.
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I mix things from my Somali culture and my American side.
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It's nice to be needed.
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Dangerous because your present Administration and its specialized agencies by all accounts know no restraint in hitting out at any perceived enemy of America, and nobody or nothing can protect one from their vindictiveness.
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I'm not willing to risk more terrorist plots succeeding and more paedophiles going free.
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'Mean' is a song I wrote about somebody who wrote things that were so mean so many times that it would ruin my day. Then it would ruin the next day. And it would level me so many times, I just felt like I was being hit in the face every time this person would take to their computer.
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I started crying, because there's nothing like hearing that the artist who originally did the song likes your version.
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I think 'Invisible' is a great song, but I don't know how accessible it is.
