Bono (Paul David Hewson) Quotes

When John Lennon sings, 'Oh, my love/For the first time in my life/My eyes are wide open' - these songs have an intimacy for me that's not just between people, I realize now, not just sexual intimacy. A spiritual intimacy.

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• If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.

  

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• An unlimited America was the vision for the nation set forth by our Founding Fathers. It is the vision enshrined in those two great charters of freedom: our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution. Many of America's most intractable problems stem from the fact that we have strayed from that vision - and lost direction.

  

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• Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.

  

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• I was handed a chocolate bar and an M-1 rifle and told to go kill Hitler.

  

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• It excites me to go to a movie and be reminded that I'm human, and I'm filled with opposites, and I'm built with flaws. Part of growth and healing is recognizing that.

  

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• It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion to show that it is at variance with that law which warrants slavery.

  

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• I've been an atheist since I was nine years old. And my mom is really religious, so we have a strange relationship. But if my mother was right, what would be the reason that the gods could let anything bad happen in the world?

  

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• Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.

  

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• There was never any question that I would go to college, that I would travel, that I would go to the theater early and often.

  

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• I'm an actor, so I am always scared. You never know if you are on vacation or that you have been retired and they just didn't tell you.

  

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• Laura Bush has the face of my mother when my mother was young. The face, the body, the voice. The first time I saw on TV Laura Bush, I got frozen because it was as if my mother was not dead. 'Oh, Mama,' I said, 'Mama.'

  

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• Stevie Wonder and Diana Ross and the Jackson 5, that's what I grew up on.

  

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• When John Lennon sings, 'Oh, my love/For the first time in my life/My eyes are wide open' - these songs have an intimacy for me that's not just between people, I realize now, not just sexual intimacy. A spiritual intimacy.

  

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