Adam Clayton Quotes

It's very confusing when fame comes early on in your career. You get a little bit bent out of shape in terms of what's important. Fame is like the dessert that comes with your achievements - it's not an achievement in itself, but sometimes it can overpower the work.

Adam Clayton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Drag wasn't really on Broadway. It was considered low-class.

John Cameron Mitchell

DragBroadwayReallyConsidered

I know how to be a gracious loser.

Jennifer Palmieri

LoserKnowGraciousHow

When I was 12, I had a coach tell me I would never be a championship pitcher. That devastated me. I was crushed.

Jennie Finch

MeNeverCoachTellChampionship

If I were a child of Tibet or of Arabia, I suspect the path I'd walk would be the Buddhist path or the Muslim path. And I don't mind saying that I don't invalidate any of those paths.

John Shelby Spong

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You're just so excited that you have this record deal or this movie opportunity that you don't stand up for yourself and say, This is what I want to do.

Solange Knowles

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I don't want to appear hostile, like I'm hostile to L.A. or that I feel that the people don't appreciate jazz. I don't think it's that. I think it's something more. It's something a little bit more complicated than that.

Sonny Rollins

PeopleThinkAppreciateFeelJazz

We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages - we don't throw it away all at once.

Robert A. Cook

LifeSmallLittleAwayThrowOnce

I like the taste of grass-fed meat. It is chewier, I'll own that... The Argentines make excellent beef that's grass-fed. They've learned how to age it, and they've gotten good at it.

Michael Pollan

GoodAgeMeatTasteOwnExcellent

Silicon Valley has a lot of noise, a lot of hype. People are very excited about all of the Facebook stuff, Facebook applications. It's just been a huge hype over the last year when actually... there isn't really that much value.

Jawed Karim

ValuePeopleYearOverNoiseValley

For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life - the lesson of your utter insignificance.

Joseph Brodsky

LifeTimeLanguageBoredomYouYour

I wanted to be a rock star.

Craig Ferguson

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Rock-and-roll, to me, is very serious because we deal with the young people. We deal with people who need something, and that's the same thing that a preacher does. He feeds you something that you need spiritually in your soul and in your makeup.

Clarence Clemons

SoulPeopleMeMakeupYouYoung

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