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"Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens."
"When I was growing up in the 1960s, there was starting to be more books geared towards young adults."
"I have always read all the latest cookery books and magazines, from all over the world."
"Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please."
"Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost."
"In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read; others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not name them."
"What if I were seeking a hardcopy? A book I can bury my nose in metaphorically and literally if I'm a self-confessed book-sniffer and proud to say so."
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"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."
"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."
"My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them."
"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."
"U2 is an original species... there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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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