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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.

Bono

But more than anything else, for the British folks Irish people were all terrorists. So when we went to Britain, it was always a lot of resistance to U2. And that’s why we came to America.
BONO

Country People Resistance
Convictions, in the end, they can be dangerous, but a world without them is just kind of an awful kind of gray, amorphous mass.
BONO

Awful Kind World
Let’s not bequeath the pop charts to just children.
BONO

Bequeath Children Pops
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.
BONO

Birthday Dream Record See Song
Religion can be the enemy of God. It’s often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.
BONO

Building Enemy Happens
You’ve got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.
BONO

Aids Victim Watches
Sometimes religion gets in the way of God.
BONO

God Sometimes Way
I felt rich when I was 20 years old and my wife was paying my bills. Just being in a band, I’ve always felt blessed.
BONO

Blessed Wife Years
Facts, like people, want to be free – and when they’re free, liberty is usually around the corner.
BONO

Inspiration Motivation People
My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.
BONO

Inspirational Simple Understanding
It’s so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.
BONO

Cynical Sweet Teeth
I don’t know how U2 will stay relevant. I know we’ve got a future. I know we can fill stadiums. And yet with every record, I think, ‘Is this it? Are we still relevant?’
BONO

Record Relevant Stadiums
Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
BONO

Book Giving Persons
Laughter is eternity if joy is real.
BONO

Joy Laughter Real
Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.
BONO

Madness People Thinking
When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals.
BONO

Commodities Oil School Two

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.

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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.

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