Bono (Paul David Hewson) Quotes
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Concealing what is shameful to you will never lead to anything of value.
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It seems astonishing to be paid for indulging in pure pleasure. For me to go to Coburg is rather as if a trainspotter was sent for a few weeks to Swindon or a chocoholic asked on holiday by Green and Black.
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But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake.
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The only sport I'm not interested in is horse racing. That's because I don't know the horses personally.
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Personally, I don't wear fur.
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When I have been asked during these last weeks who caused the riots and the killing in L.A., my answer has been direct and simple: Who is to blame for the riots? The rioters are to blame. Who is to blame for the killings? The killers are to blame.
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Watch the costs and the profits take care of themselves.
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I think all the great studio filmmakers are dead or no longer working. I don't put myself, my friends, and other contemporary filmmakers in their category. I just see us doing some work.
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I defected to South Korea in search of freedom of speech and movement. I had longed to put my feet on this soil, even in my dreams.
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As the TiVos and the Replays are coming into our world - and they're coming - it's better to - be inside the tent and figure out what they're doing and to work hand in hand with them as opposed to saying, 'You know what, the automobile is not going to work. I'm going to stick to my horse and carriage,' you know.
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To say what or where we came from has nothing to do with what or where we came from. We do not come from there any more, but only from each word that proceeds out of the mouth of the unnamed. And yet sometimes it is our only way of pointing to who we are.
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If one asks for success and prepares for failure, one will get the situation one has prepared for.
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There were guys in wingtips that just didn't fly.
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I had been to Europe that summer, and they said, 'Can anybody verify that?'
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If you balance in the Present, you are living in Eternity
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I think I try to speak to the heart of the woman who I know is interested in growing into herself.
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I buy records from all across the board. I get kind of a hybrid of influences in my own music.
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'Singin' in the Rain' was the one for me. Yeah. I mean, Gene Kelly could just sway and never fall. He'd just sway and sway as he danced.
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In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.
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I was told once if I kept breaking things on my legs, that I wasn't going to be able to walk soon, you know? I wanted to be a pro skateboarder, but it was too hard. I was trying, but it wasn't going to happen.
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In the future, when something comes up, you tell exactly how it happened but write down for yourself the way you think it should have happened. Tell the truth and write the story. Then you won't get mixed up. It was the best advice Francie every got.
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The events with Henry III happened, obviously the way it happened, liberties were taken.
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The strangest thing has happened. I really missed my dog. That's never happened to me before. You know, on a long tour you do hear people saying they miss their pets. I never have. But last night I started really missing my dog. It's very odd, 'cause I don't have a dog.
