QUOTES by Paul David Hewson
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"On the phone, it's about as intimate as it can get. The person's right in your ear. You got to be careful on the phone. You can leave yourself wide open"
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"ISIS and these kinds of extremists are a death cult. We’re a life cult. Rock ’n’ roll is a life force, and it’s joy as an act of defiance."
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"The world is more malleable than you think, and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape."
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"If your heart was hard, that would be better / You could only break it once or twice / After that it would be rid of blood and you could let it turn to ice."
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"Honesty, vulnerability and a good amount of courageous faith allows you to cry out in your bewilderment and not lose your belief in the process. These things allow you to wrestle your faith rather than lose it."
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"Entrepreneurial capitalism takes more people out of poverty than aid."
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"Religion to me almost like when God leaves – and people devise a set of rules to fill in the space."
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"A degree of narcissism is necessary, I suppose, to look in the pool to see your reflection. (Bono)"
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"People rid the room of argument until they have no one left — except people who agree with them. It is understandable. But I like a good argument."
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"People who know our music, they know who you are. They've been in the dark room, they know you better than your best friend, because you don't sing like that to your best friend, you don't sing in their ear."
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"What we're about in this band, I hope...is that we put people before ideas."
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"I want to run I want to hide I want to tear down the walls That hold me inside I want to reach out And touch the flame Where the streets have no name"
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"Happiness is for those who don't really need it. So I can live without happiness."
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"My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them."
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"The great gifts of models are not that they're more beautiful than the next person, it's that they're able to be photographed and not be self-conscious."
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"It's still very difficult for me to rely. Your weakness, the blessing of your weakness is it forces you into friendships. The things that you lack, you look for in others."
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"What you don't have you don't need it now What you don't know you can feel it somehow What you don't have you don't need it now Don't need it now It was a beautiful day."
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"It's quite widespread in rock culture, that mythology of the shooting star. I'd rather be the North star. As bob (Dylan) says, you can navigate by it."
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"There's a point where you find yourself tiptoeing as an artist, and then you know that you're in the wrong place."
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"There's no retirement for an artist,its your way of living so theres no end to it."
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"To touch is to heal, to hurt is to steal, if you want to kiss the sky, better learn how to kneel - on your knees boy!"
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"We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong."
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"I wouldn't run for President. I wouldn't want to move to a smaller house."
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"I'm never nervous when I go to meet heads of state. I feel they should be nervous, because they are the ones who'll be held accountable for the lives their decisions will impact the most."
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"I will admit that we are attracted to issues that unify people rather than divide them."
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"There is a root arrogance in any writer; a hugely arrogant assumption that anyone is going to listen to them."
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"Every artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill for inspiration/and then sing about the grief."
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"I wish to begin again on a daily basis. To be born again every day is something that I try to do. And I'm deadly serious about that."
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"I'm a musician. I write songs. I just hope when the day is done I've been able to tear a little corner off of the darkness."
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"We're starting our own religion at last. The Order of Frisbeetarians. We believe that when you die, your soul ascends to a rooftop and you can never get it back."
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"For all that "I was lost, I am found," it is probably more accurate to say, "I was really lost, I'm a little less so at the moment."
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"Where you live should not determine whether you live, or whether you die."
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"The human heart is greedy; it will use religion, color, or any other excuse to justify its greed. Blame the human heart."
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"In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows But my sorrows they learned to swim"
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"It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw."
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