The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.
BONOI put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.
More Bono Quotes
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The French are so into themselves that they don’t even notice you.
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Rock stars are good at making noise.
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Convictions, in the end, they can be dangerous, but a world without them is just kind of an awful kind of gray, amorphous mass.
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It’s so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.
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The great gifts of models are not that they’re more beautiful than the next person, it’s that they’re able to be photographed and not be self-conscious.
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The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we’re small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion.
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Jesus, Jesus help me. I’m alone in this world.
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Stop asking God to bless what you’re doing. Find out what God’s doing. It’s already blessed.
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I do see the good in people, but I also see the bad — I see it in myself. I know what I’m capable of. Good and bad. It’s very imnportant that we make that clear. Just because I often find a way around the darkness doesn’t mean tjat I don’t know it’s there. (Bono)
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But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was more one of worship and awe, a vertical relationship.
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If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It’s a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting.
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U2 is an original species… there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
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We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.
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It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw.
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As a musician and a songwriter it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place. Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.
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