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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It's better than it was Sunday. It's improved. They're probably going to take that boot off Tuesday. He'll probably be ready to go, hopefully by Wednesday.
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You just have to know that you will always get up again. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but you will. And that's what'll make you stronger. That's what happened to me
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When loved ones die, people always say, “Don't be sad. I'm sure they would have wanted you to be happy.” I'm sure that's true. But let's be realistic here, people also want to be missed. It is every person's nightmare to leave the world behind as if they had never been there at all.
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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.
