Chaz Bono quote: "I absolutely believe in assimilation. I don't believe I'm any different from straight people. My wants and needs are the same as theirs. I don't look at sexual orientation as that big of a deal. It's just an orientation."

There's a gender in your brain and a gender in your body. For 99 percent of people, those things...
CHAZ BONO

Obviously the transgender movement has not progressed in the way that the gay and lesbian movement h...
CHAZ BONO

I confused gender identity with sexual orientation. Your gender identity is about who you are, how y...
CHAZ BONO

It felt as if my body was, like, literally betraying me because I went from a very athletic, straigh...
CHAZ BONO

Around 2001, I started analyzing lesbians. I started to realize that even really butch-acting or -dr...
CHAZ BONO

I always wanted to shave. It is a very natural process. For my birthday I got a lot of shaving stuff...
CHAZ BONO

For me, it was never a question of whether or not I was transgender. It was a question of what I'...
CHAZ BONO

I'm just a regular guy. All these ideas that children shouldn't watch me, I'm going to b...
CHAZ BONO

When I realised I was transgender I was so afraid of what my transition would do to everyone else in...
CHAZ BONO

Deep down, my mom had long suspected I was gay... Much of her anger and hurt came from her sense of ...
CHAZ BONO

A lot of parents never speak to their transgender kids again; that's not the case in my family.
CHAZ BONO

I thought, transgender people are much worse off than I am. That's why they're willing to ri...
CHAZ BONO

I don't have the luxury of doing things privately.
CHAZ BONO

I feel really good, I feel like a man now, and I'm really happy.
CHAZ BONO

I came out around 25 publicly.
CHAZ BONO

I've been an activist in the LGBT community for a long time. I think nothing's changed, I...
CHAZ BONO

Parents have to understand: if your kid isn't you, don't blame the kid.
CHAZ BONO

Being self-supporting is important to me.
CHAZ BONO

I always felt like the male from the time I was a child. There wasn't much feminine about me.
CHAZ BONO

I had felt uncomfortable as a woman my whole life.
CHAZ BONO

People who don't have gender dysphoria aren't going to catch it by watching me dance on tele...
CHAZ BONO

What mom cares about most is that I'm happy, healthy and enjoying my life.
CHAZ BONO

I felt like one of the boys. My friends were boys. In school I related to boys.
CHAZ BONO

When you transition, everyone kind of has to transition around you.
CHAZ BONO

Gender is between your ears and not between your legs.
CHAZ BONO

Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us...
BONO

I have been working for Africans since I was 18, when I got involved with the Nelson Mandela concert...
BONO

There's the country of America, which you have to defend, but there's also the idea of America. Amer...
BONO

When you align yourself with God's purpose as described in the Scriptures, something special hap...
BONO

You see, idealism detached from action is just a dream. But idealism allied with pragmatism, with ro...
BONO

I accept the Old Testament as more of an action movie: blood, car chases, evacuations, a lot of spec...
BONO

Jesus isn't lettin' you off the hook. The Scriptures don't let you off the hook so easil...
BONO

When people say, you know, 'Good teacher,' 'Prophet,' 'Really nice guy'... t...
BONO

What I like about pop music, and why I'm still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes ou...
BONO

The less you know, the more you believe.
BONO

But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was m...
BONO

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

I don't let my religious world get too complicated.
BONO

It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.
BONO

I am, as a character, at times, a little overbearing. I recognize that.
BONO

You've gotta be very careful that grace and politeness do not merge into a banality of behavior,...
BONO

Sadly, I do my homework. I've a soft spot for the boring minutiae. I read the Charter of the Uni...
BONO

I think ABBA have a pure joy to their music and that's what makes them extraordinary.
BONO

Overcoming my dad telling me that I could never amount to anything is what has made me the megaloman...
BONO

Mandela's heroism is the heroism of a man who suffered so badly for what he thought of as freedo...
BONO

It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
BONO

So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to l...
BONO

If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It's a desire to communicate. A dee...
BONO

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

I don't like the name, U2, actually.
BONO

The most powerful idea that's entered the world in the last few thousand years - the idea of gra...
BONO

Poverty breeds despair. We know this. Despair breeds violence. We know this. In turbulent times, isn...
BONO

As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a c...
BONO

Music can change the world because it can change people.
BONO

Rock 'n' roll is ridiculous. It's absurd. In the past, U2 was trying to duck that. Now w...
BONO

I remember how my mother would bring us to chapel on Sundays... and my father used to wait outside. ...
BONO

Because I was suspicious of the traditional Christian church, I tended to tar them all with the same...
BONO

I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.
BONO

At the heart of the Irish economy has always been the philosophy of tax competitiveness. On the cran...
BONO

When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt gover...
BONO

I think carrying moral baggage is very dangerous for an artist. If you have a duty, it's to be t...
BONO

Contrary to reports, this boy is not a billionaire or going to be richer than any Beatle... and not ...
BONO

Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits; cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich ...
BONO

There's nothing hippie about my picture of Christ. The Gospels paint a picture of a very demandi...
BONO

In Ethiopia during the famine, I saw stuff there that reorganized how I saw the world. I didn't quit...
BONO

I felt rich when I was 20 years old and my wife was paying my bills. Just being in a band, I've ...
BONO

Africa is bursting into flames while we all stand around with watering cans
BONO

The soul needs beauty for a soul mate. When the soul wants...the soul waits.
BONO

The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, ...
BONO

The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.
BONO

The great moments of rock 'n' roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a se...
BONO

When you truly accept that those children in some far off place in the global village have the same ...
BONO

You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mo...
BONO

Ethiopia didn't just blow my mind; it opened my mind. Anyway, on our last day at this orphanage ...
BONO

If September 11th has taught us anything, it's certainly that the world has never been so interd...
BONO

But more than anything else, for the British folks Irish people were all terrorists. So when we went...
BONO

I used to love Kurt Cobain, when he was telling people we're a pop band. People would laugh, the...
BONO

What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap ...
BONO

I'm a singer, not a politician, and I think you don't want the two to get confused. It's...
BONO

It's annoying, but justice and equality are mates. Aren't they? Justice always wants to hang...
BONO

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

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

I truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things...
BONO

As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be intere...
BONO

Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don't know what to say, and I think music...
BONO

Religion can be the enemy of God. It's often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the bui...
BONO

Next time you go out for dinner, have a look around the table and if everyone is on your payroll, th...
BONO

Essentially, I'm a very real person; good and bad. And the public image is one of being very good, I...
BONO

The strangest thing has happened. I really missed my dog. That's never happened to me before. You kn...
BONO

What's so powerful about the Psalms are, as well as they're being gospel and songs of praise...
BONO

Actually oddly enough, I think my work, the activism, will be forgotten. And I hope it will. Because...
BONO

The job of art is to chase ugliness away.
BONO

Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can...
BONO

U2 is an original species... there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy tha...
BONO

U2 is sort of song writing by accident really. We don't really know what we're doing and whe...
BONO

Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world's poorest people.
BONO

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

It's much easier to be successful than it is to be relevant. The tricks won't keep you relev...
BONO

I'm never nervous when I go to meet heads of state. I feel they should be nervous, because they are ...
BONO

God is in the slums, in the cardboard boxes where the poor play house. God is in the silence of a mo...
BONO

He is well-respected in business circles and brings a valuable perspective to labor-management relat...
CHAZ BICKERS

War, n: A time-tested political tactic guaranteed to raise a president's popularity rating by at lea...
CHAZ BUFE

Except breaking the rules, find the flaws in the system and use it against it because there is no pe...
CHAZ BATTSETSEG

We knew we were going to be a lot better than we were before. Those (wins) just brought our confiden...
CHAZ ROOTS

He motivated us. He told us we were going to be good this year. He told us to forget the past, and t...
CHAZ ROOTS

I didn't think much would happen for Christmas, but we were pleasantly surprised.
CHAZ FONTENTOT

I want it to get rebuilt so my mom can live there.
CHAZ FONTENTOT

It's a lot different here (Lancaster), but it's still nice. In New Orleans, you know, there were a l...
CHAZ FONTENTOT

Since we won't be building any more planes, we need to know how long the strike will last before we ...
CHAZ BICKERS

There are discussions still going on and the information-sharing is still happening.
CHAZ BICKERS

No one ever benefits from a strike.
CHAZ BICKERS

Our customers are counting on us, so we'll be focused on returning to production and a steady stream...
CHAZ BICKERS

Like any company that's going into negotiations, we have made plans for any possibility. That said, ...
CHAZ BICKERS

We're trying to make sure we have a contract that works for everybody.
CHAZ BICKERS

I feel kind of like the black sheep in Congress, but here I am.
SONNY BONO

Don't cling to fame. You're just borrowing it. It's like money. You're going to die,...
SONNY BONO

Autism is the fastest growing developmental disability in our nation.
MARY BONO

Arnold has succeeded at every level, and I believe he is the only person that can unite the people o...
MARY BONO

With gas prices nationally, and especially in our area, increasingly on the rise, it is more crucial...
MARY BONO

If anybody ever dares to compare Bob Dole to Clinton, then they're comparing a criminal to an ho...
SONNY BONO

I'm not homophobic, I'm not a bigot, I'm not pandering to hatred.
SONNY BONO

The problem people are seeing is they want new leadership and that's not offering enough new leaders...
MARY BONO

So many people got us through the loss, ... Certainly beginning with family on all sides, tremendous...
MARY BONO

What is qualified? What have I been qualified for in my life? I haven't been qualified to be a mayor...
SONNY BONO

Nordic walking poles are very popular in Europe; they have Nordic walking parks in Germany and the S...
ANGELA BONO

Don't cling to fame. You're just borrowing it. It's like money. You're going to die, and somebody el...
SONNY BONO

Parents have to understand: if your kid isn't you, don't blame the kid.
CHASTITY BONO

I'm a maverick. I've always been a maverick.
SONNY BONO

You burn up to 40 percent more calories with the same effort, but you're using your upper body. You ...
ANGELA BONO

If you take a five-mile hike with Nordic walking poles, and you're not used to using your upper body...
ANGELA BONO

They should coordinate their forces, but I'm not in favor of fusing the two missions,
JOSE BONO

Today is a day of pain and mourning and solidarity with the families who lost loved ones.
JOSE BONO

Currently, not only are Americans taxed on what they earn, but those assets are taxed again when the...
MARY BONO

I believe that it is Congress' obligation to every individual facing a lifetime of suffering to full...
MARY BONO

In Southern California we are more prepared for disasters than they were in the Gulf (of Mexico) are...
MARY BONO

I absolutely believe in assimilation. I don't believe I'm any different from straight people. My wan...
CHASTITY BONO

You're just borrowing it. It's like money. You're going to die, and somebody else is going to get it...
SONNY BONO

With all due respect to lawyers, it's wonderful that you have this intricate knowledge. You break do...
SONNY BONO

Deep down, my mom had long suspected I was gay... Much of her anger and hurt came from her sense of ...
CHASTITY BONO

For the past 6 years, it is my privilege and honor to serve as the Representative for California's 4...
MARY BONO

the only appropriate remedy.
MARY BONO

People hope to point to the White House with pride. We believe that presidents told the truth and se...
MARY BONO

I have always said that life is more important than politics.
JOSE BONO

It is good to evoke what happened, and to conjure up what might, happen again. Those who come togeth...
JOSE BONO

It could have been an accident or it could have been an attack from the exterior,
JOSE BONO

It could have been an accident or an attack. The causes have not been fully clarified.
JOSE BONO

These missions must remain separate with separate chains of command. The only thing they have in com...
JOSE BONO

Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analy...
EDWARD DE BONO

Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. many people of average intelligence are skilled th...
EDWARD DE BONO

If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.
EDWARD DE BONO

A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.
EDWARD DE BONO

A memory is anything that happens and does not completely unhappen. The result is some trace which i...
EDWARD DE BONO

One can think of a secretary actively operating a filing system, of a librarian actively cataloguing...
EDWARD DE BONO

If you never change your mind, why have one?
EDWARD DE BONO

Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled th...
EDWARD DE BONO

I must say, I don't feel very qualified to be a pop star. I feel very awkward at times in the role.
EDWARD DE BONO

People should realize we're jerks just like them.
EDWARD DE BONO

Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
EDWARD DE BONO

Some people drift along like a cork on a river, feeling that they cannot do anything except drift, m...
EDWARD DE BONO

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
EDWARD DE BONO

Thinking is often regarded as an extension of the ego. Clever children in school base their egos on ...
EDWARD DE BONO

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations
EDWARD DE BONO

In the future, instead of striving to be right at a high cost, it will be more appropriate to be fle...
EDWARD DE BONO

Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different w...
EDWARD DE BONO

Creative thinking - in terms of idea creativity - is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can b...
EDWARD DE BONO

Logic will never change emotion or perception.
EDWARD DE BONO

Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativit...
EDWARD DE BONO

A painter may be looking at the world in a way which is very different from everyone else. If he'...
EDWARD DE BONO

One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one...
EDWARD DE BONO

Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in ano...
EDWARD DE BONO

The system will always be defended by those countless people who have enough intellect to defend but...
EDWARD DE BONO

Everyone has the right to doubt everything as often as he pleases and the duty to do it at least onc...
EDWARD DE BONO

A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.
EDWARD DE BONO

Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy...
EDWARD DE BONO

In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in hi...
EDWARD DE BONO

Companies that solely focus on competition will ultimately die. Thosethat focus on value creation wi...
EDWARD DE BONO

Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.
EDWARD DE BONO

Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain
EDWARD DE BONO

We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a p...
EDWARD DE BONO

An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing wh...
EDWARD DE BONO

It is well known that "problem avoidance" is an important part of problem solving. Instead of solvin...
EDWARD DE BONO

The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas
EDWARD DE BONO

Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent.
EDWARD DE BONO

Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.
EDWARD DE BONO

It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more ...
EDWARD DE BONO

One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one...
EDWARD DE BONO

The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas. It is better to have enough ideas...
EDWARD DE BONO

The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model...
EDWARD DE BONO

Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produc...
EDWARD DE BONO

A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely not happen.
EDWARD DE BONO

Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced.
EDWARD DE BONO

It's always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually ...
EDWARD DE BONO

To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapi...
EDWARD DE BONO

In 80% of Socrates' dialogues there was no constructive outcome. He saw his role as simply pointing ...
EDWARD DE BONO

I do a great deal of work with young children, and if you give a child a problem, he may come up wit...
EDWARD DE BONO

I think there is a danger with young people of being dependent in the sense that they don't acqu...
EDWARD DE BONO

There's a danger in the internet and social media. The notion that information is enough, that m...
EDWARD DE BONO

An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an ...
EDWARD DE BONO

The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas.
EDWARD DE BONO

I absolutely believe in assimilation. I don't believe I'm any different from straight people. My wants and needs are the same as theirs. I don't look at sexual orientation as that big of a deal. It's just an orientation.

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I absolutely believe in assimilation. I don't believe I'm any different from straight people. My wants and needs are the same as theirs. I don't look at sexual orientation as that big of a deal. It's just an orientation.

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