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Quotes

Laugh

by gungus on March 19, 2009

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.
- Kurt Vonnegut

U2 – No Line on the Horizon

by gungus on March 3, 2009

U2 - No Line on the Horizon


It’s not an easy record, and it’s complex. “[Get on Your] Boots” is one of those things where our audience is kind of divided on whether they think it’s a good or bad thing. I’m very pleased with it. I think it shakes it up a bit, and we need to do that. We’ve had two albums — “All That You Can’t Leave Behind” and “How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb” — and they were very U2 as U2. This album is a lot more experimental.

-Bono

Remain an artist

February 23, 2009

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to  remain an artist once he grows up.”
– Pablo Picasso

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Time

February 3, 2009

The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.
- Banksy

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The Bumble Bee

January 27, 2009

“If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe then man would only have four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man.”
– Albert Einstein

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Art

November 25, 2008

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
- Andre Gide

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Barack Obama

November 4, 2008

Tonight, I saw history. Barack Obama won the Presidential election. What a great night! G made hors devours and the three of us gathered in front of the TV to bask in it’s warmth and glow. In a strange way, as we watched a 50 something inch TV, it felt remarkably like the sixties. There [...]

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Striving for Diamonds not Coal

September 16, 2008

“We’ve hit a rich songwriting vein. It gets a bit dark down here but looks like we’ve found diamonds not coal. I thought a while back we might have the album wrapped by now, but why come up above ground now if there’s more priceless stuff to be found?”
- Bono on U2’s Upcoming 2009 Album

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Very Long Cat

September 4, 2008

“You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no [...]

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Begin

July 16, 2008

Don’t let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
- Richard L Evans

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