Paul David Hewson Quotes

• Happiness is for those who don’t really need it. So I can live without happiness.

  Paul David Hewson

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• There’s no retirement for an artist,its your way of living so there’s no end to it.

  Paul David Hewson

  Topics in Art

• Elvis ate America before America ate him.

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• They didn’t have Kalashnikovs but U2 tickets in their hands.

  Paul David Hewson

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• Christians are hard to tolerate; I don’t know how Jesus does it.

  Paul David Hewson

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• Stop asking God to bless what you’re doing. Find out what God’s doing. It’s already blessed.

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• Celebrity is ridiculous and silly and it’s mad that people like me are listened to – you know, rap stars and movie stars.

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• I used to love Kurt Cobain, when he was telling people we’re a pop band. People would laugh, they thought of it as good old ironic Kurt. But he wasn’t being ironic.

  Paul David Hewson

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• What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.

  Paul David Hewson

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• You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what’s happening in Africa, and if we’re honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.

  Paul David Hewson

  Topics in Justice

  Tags in Africa, Honest, Idea

• You see, idealism detached from action is just a dream. But idealism allied with pragmatism, with rolling up your sleeves and making the world bend a bit, is very exciting. It’s very real. It’s very strong.

  Paul David Hewson

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• The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off – we do not have to stand for this.

  Paul David Hewson

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  Tags in Generation, Poverty

• We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.

  Paul David Hewson

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  Tags in Thought

• To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

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  Topics in Respect

• The less you know, the more you believe.

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• Ethiopia didn’t just blow my mind; it opened my mind. Anyway, on our last day at this orphanage a man handed me his baby and said, ‘Would you take my son with you?’ He knew, in Ireland, that his son would live, and that in Ethiopia, his son would die.

  Paul David Hewson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Mind, Son

• Rock ‘n’ roll is ridiculous. It’s absurd. In the past, U2 was trying to duck that. Now we’re wrapping our arms around it and giving it a great big kiss.

  Paul David Hewson

  Topics in Past

  Tags in Rock-N-Roll

• So what we’re talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we’re facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality.

  Paul David Hewson

  Topics in Uncategorized

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• My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

  Paul David Hewson

  Topics in Mistake

  Tags in Heroes

• It’s stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.

  Paul David Hewson

  Topics in Ambition

Paul David Hewson (55)

Birth:	10th May, 1960
Nationality:	Irish
Profession:	Lyricist, Musician, Singer

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