Bono (Paul David Hewson) Quotes
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If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain can spot that is not real even though you think it looks cool. Your brain knows the truth, so you don't jump and you don't scream. It was very important for me to expose the audience to real elements.
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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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I am the son of peasants and I know what is happening in the villages. That is why I wanted to take revenge, and I regret nothing.
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Leaving all the glamour and air-kissing aside, at the end of the day, fashion is about operations and getting things done. The best way to be successful, therefore, is to learn from the people who do it best.
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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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The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.
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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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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
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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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The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.
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Faith begins where religious pretension ends.
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I love to have a band, but dancers are my priority because I really want a show, you know?
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Because of the high altitude, you get drunk really fast. So everyone's drunk all the time.
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The Falcon was forever going wrong. Time and again Han and his rebel cohorts would have to bang on the dashboard with their fists to get some wayward system working. And this too helped give the ship a flawed, almost human quality. This is something I look for in all machines...
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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.
