Adam Clayton Quotes

I was actually pretty shy in school. My defense mechanism was to be the class clown. I remember getting into a lot of trouble for being disruptive, and I was brought in front of the headteacher, who said: 'What's going to happen to you; what are you going to do when you grow up?' and I said: 'Well, I'm obviously going to be a comedian.'

Adam Clayton

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Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: March 13, 1960

Topics

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A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.

Johann Georg Zimmermann

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If America vetted Muslim immigrants as toughly as the 'New York Times' vets Donald Trump, this would be a safe country.

Jesse Watters

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Andoya is in a different world, set at the northern edge of Europe in what seems to be a time and weather of its own.

John Burnside

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Things are only as important as you make them out to be.

Amanda de Cadenet

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I'm a theatre person, that's who I am. I'm happy to make sojourns into the world of movies but I'm basically a theatre director that potters off and does a couple of movies.

Stephen Daldry

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I'm as interested in the families and communities that surround our soldiers.

Robyn Carr

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Let me make it clear: I support health care reform. I just don't support Nancy Pelosi's version.

Rodney Frelinghuysen

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It should be noted that the EPA's banning of methanol is categorically absurd from the point of view of environmental protection.

Robert Zubrin

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I love to make pies - pot pies, quiches, savory tarts, fruit pies. I use an old-fashioned pastry blender with wires and a wooden handle. I never use a recipe.

Ruth Reichl

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When I was a kid, I was at a bowling alley and I ran into a soda machine. I still have the scar on my right eyebrow obviously.

Luke Perry

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I'm a big believer in education, period.

Jon Secada

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Foreign policy will require a strategic agility that, whenever possible, gets ahead of problems, strengthens U.S. security and alliances, and promotes American interests and credibility.

Chuck Hagel

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