Stop asking God to bless what you’re doing. Find out what God’s doing. It’s already blessed.
BONOLet’s not bequeath the pop charts to just children.
More Bono Quotes
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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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Laughter is eternity if joy is real.
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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?’
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Where you live in the world should not determine whether you live in the world.
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I wouldn’t run for President. I wouldn’t want to move to a smaller house.
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Every artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill for inspiration/and then sing about the grief.
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My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.
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In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows But my sorrows they learned to swim
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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.
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Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don’t know what to say, and I think music can be more eloquent than words.
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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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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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The less you know, the more you believe.
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Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to put the fire out. We’re standing around with watering cans, when what we really need is the fire brigade.
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Sadly, I do my homework. I’ve a soft spot for the boring minutiae. I read the Charter of the United Nations before meeting with Kofi Annan.
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What I like about pop music, and why I’m still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes our folk music.
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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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There’s no retirement for an artist,its your way of living so theres no end to it.
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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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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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Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits; cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich by planting or digging or drilling for wealth.
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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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It’s annoying, but justice and equality are mates. Aren’t they? Justice always wants to hang out with equality. And equality is a real pain.
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I will admit that we are attracted to issues that unify people rather than divide them.
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I get to hear the really good or the really bad things in the press, but I don’t read it. I can afford to say that because public opinion does not drive U2’s audience.
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Essentially, I’m a very real person; good and bad. And the public image is one of being very good,
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