Bono (Paul David Hewson) Quotes
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Magneto wants to cope with the difficulties thrust upon him by society and by his own nature.
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Making music is pretty much the only thing I can do.
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For us, overseas employment addresses two major problems: unemployment and the balance of payments position.
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I see Turkey's future as being in Europe, as one of many prosperous, tolerant, democratic countries.
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My own wandering blood comes from my seafaring grandfather, who, after he had left the sea and settled on shore, still governed his house by a ship's rules.
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Fuel conservation is as important as fuel production.
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One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially outside any frame of religious forgiveness. All of us have done something we regret – how we manage to remove that from our conscience, or whether that's even possible, interested me.
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It's true that none of my characters are admirable. But maybe I'm primarily a satirist, and a satirist needs to hold up what's not admirable.
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I've always dreamed of having a large family.
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We should teach the students, as well as executives, how to conduct experiments, how to examine data, and how to use these tools to make better decisions.
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The two things that hit you when you meet someone are, first, how they're visually put together and then, what they tell you with the tone of their voice - whether or not they're to be taken seriously.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
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I do my own thing. And I believe what I do is the right thing.
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It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.
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Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.
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Great passions may give us a quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms of enthusiastic activity, disinterested or otherwise, which comes naturally to many of us.
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There's a lot of potential that goes unused in places like South Central L.A., a lot of brilliant, smart people who just don't have that chance to show it.
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MacUser: If you could change one thing, what would it be? Jef Raskin: To not have people assume you can rank every-thing one dimensionally. Or have everybody realise that killing people is not a way to solve problems.
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Why waste a sentence saying nothing?
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We're so obsessed with [big] data, we forget how to interpret it.
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If anyone would like to acquire humility, the first step is to realize one is proud. Nothing can be done before it.
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Perspective is the cure for depression.
