Bono (Paul David Hewson) Quotes
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All I can start with is what moves me and feels like a great challenge as an actor and I think is saying something unusual or irreverent or human - honest in some way.
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I'm 20 years old, and I still love love. I hope I'm sweet. Just your everyday girl.
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Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.
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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
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The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.
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Really, I prefer not to read my early books. Not that I don't like them, but I don't recognize myself anymore, like an old actor watching himself as a young leading man.
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I could have probably built a great career in management consulting, but one of the insights that I had early on is that just because you're good at something doesn't mean that you should continue to do it. Somewhere in my heart of hearts I knew it wasn't what I wanted to do.
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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As the numbers of native-born Europeans begin to fall, with their anemic fertility rates, will the aging Europeans become more magnanimous toward destitute newcomers who do not speak the national language or assimilate into the national culture but consume its benefits?
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I don't want to hear about my death.
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I can tell you where I was when Kennedy was shot - which was in the common room at school. I heard about it on the old valve radio. At the time of Armstrong's landing, I was at university rehearsing a play.
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Self-exploration is very painful, but unless you do that, you will never know who you are and who you want to be.
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I'm always trying to push for women's rights.
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Might the peasant expect the Almighty to stay the thunder storm, which clears the air of a nation from pestilence, lest the lightning bold should in its flash kill his cow?
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We must embrace the fact that if we don't commit to thinking and living differently than most people now, we are setting ourselves up to endure a life of mediocrity, struggle, failure and regret-just like most people.
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I'm so cool that the kids come to my bedroom and go, 'Mom! Turn the music down!'
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Music can change the world because it can change people.
