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From an early age I didn't buy into the value systems of working hard in a nine-to-five job. I thought creativity, friendship and loyalty and pushing the boundaries of what was acceptable was much more interesting.
- Adam Clayton
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#Creativity
#Friendship
#Loyalty
The drums tell me everything. Everything else registers a millisecond later.
- Adam Clayton
#Drums
#Everything
#Later
#Me
#Tell
A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.
- Adam Clayton
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#Man
#Order
#Relationship
#Respect
You can't make assumptions when you're dealing with health issues.
- Adam Clayton
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#Dealing
#Health
#Make
#You
If you believe in a cause, you must be willing to put yourself on the line for that cause.
- Adam Clayton
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#Cause
#Line
#Must
#Yourself
I definitely got to a point where I realize how unusual it is to be able to play large, sold-out shows 30 years into a rock and roll career. I don't take it for granted.
- Adam Clayton
#Point
#Realize
#Rock And Roll
#Rock
I don't think rock 'n roll is necessarily a young man's game. I think Neil Young is just as rock'n'roll now as he was in his 20s. I'd like to think we can still be edgy and challenging.
- Adam Clayton
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#Man
#Now
#Rock
#Young
The art market was very different before the mid-1980s: then, art was all about passion, whereas now it's become a commodity.
- Adam Clayton
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#Art
#Market
#Now
#Passion
For us there's U2 music, and then there's everything else.
- Adam Clayton
#Everything Else
#Everything
#Music
#Us
I've never necessarily chosen to be a bachelor. I've had girlfriends throughout the last 20 or 30 years. It's just that there were times when I met people that fascinated me and times I didn't.
- Adam Clayton
#Bachelor
#Last
#Me
#Never
#People
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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#Remember
#School
#Shy
#Trouble
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
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#Fame
#Important
#Work
#Your
Men should not be forced to wear pants when it's not cold.
- Adam Clayton
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#Men
#Pants
#Should
#Wear
I was drawn to things I thought were either sexy or aggressive - or both.
- Adam Clayton
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#Both
#Either
#Sexy
#Things
There are two types of collector, I think. There are those who are quite academic, and get into the archaeology of finding the earliest example of a particular idea. Then there are those interested in what's new.
- Adam Clayton
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#Example
#Finding
#New
#Two
Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
- Adam Clayton
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#Equality
#He
#Man
#Mankind
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