Bono (Paul David Hewson) Quotes

I will try to keep my homily brief. But be warned - I'm Irish.

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• On my 50th birthday in 2005, my discount-wielding AARP card came in the mail. I hurled it in the trash, put on something fabulous, and had a decadent meal. Just the thought of putting it in my wallet felt like a concession.

  

  Iman
  • Thought
  • Birthday
  • Mail

• I mask every single day. I mask every morning - since I was 27 years old. I don't care the brand: it can be from the drugstore or high end. I can be walking my dog in the mask scaring children and people off, but it's my routine that I commit to every single day.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • People
  • Children
  • High

• In human years I am 29. In actress years I'm the ripe, promising age of 18 to 35. That's how it works here in Hollyweird.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Age
  • Actress
  • Hollyweird

• I don't think I'm the world's most die-hard sci-fi fan, but I definitely grew up watching 'Star Trek' religiously - all of them: the original, 'Next Generation,' 'Deep Space Nine,' 'Voyager.' I think sci-fi has an important place in the cinema world. Fantasy is a big part of why films actually exist.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Up
  • World
  • Important

• My husband believes that he can make a difference. He loves people.

  

  Jackie Jackson The Jacksons
  • People
  • Husband
  • Difference

• There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Joy
  • Beauty

• My favorite part of the whole filmmaking process is working with a fantastic cinematographer, a fantastic actor or actors, and then just creating emotions and stories. I get so excited by that. That's the part I'm utterly addicted to.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Emotions
  • Filmmaking

• Any chance to get out and play live for some people and get out of the studio is nice.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • People
  • Live
  • Nice

• 'Mojave' is a very wild, throwback film with these two dudes going after each other.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Film
  • WIld
  • Throwback

• Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Bad
  • Man
  • Pride

• The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.

  

  Saadi
  • Together
  • Sad
  • Rose

• I'm personally more struck by visual things more than musical.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • More
  • Personally
  • Visual

• Intolerance is the besetting sin of moral fervour.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • Moral

• Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • God
  • Solitude

• Instead of generating either unnecessary alarm or a false sense of security regarding these fundamental issues, the best course is to empower people with the truth.

  

  Dick Thornburgh
  • People
  • Truth

• I have a very clear picture of what I want to do and what I feel is important as far as my contribution or my appreciation and respect for this life that we're living, and to try to make it better. I can't feel that I'm making it better playing commercial music, and I never could, and I never will.

  

  Charlie Haden
  • Life
  • Music
  • Important

• I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general way, as a kind of inspiration and a model for the beauty of language.

  

  Don DeLillo
  • Language
  • Inspiration
  • Influence

• That's the great thing about 'Corrie': it is an ensemble cast, and it didn't rest on one person's shoulders by any means.

  

  Katherine Kelly
  • Great
  • Rest

• I was really sheltered growing up, with six brothers and sisters. We played together all the time, and I was living in a fantasy world, like most creative people.

  

  Edward Enninful
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I am a singer; my job is to create music and harmony. Wherever I see harmony, I would go towards there.

  

  Adnan Sami
  • Music
  • Job

• Our contempt for any particular poem must be perfect, be total, because only a ruthless reading that allows us to measure the gap between the actual and the virtual will enable to to experience, if not a genuine poem—no such thing—a place for the genuine, whatever that might mean.

  

  Ben Lerner
  • Experience
  • Reading
  • Poem

• The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scotts as a joke, but the Scotts haven't seen the joke yet.

  

  Oliver Herford
  • Irish
  • Joke
  • Seen

• If you're Irish, it doesn't matter where you go - you'll find family.

  

  Victoria Smurfit
  • Family
  • Matter
  • Find

• I will try to keep my homily brief. But be warned - I'm Irish.

  

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  • Irish