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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.
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Country People Resistance
God is so big. It’s a gigantic concept in God.
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Ideas might Tiny
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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Country Digging Thinking
Sometimes religion gets in the way of God.
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God Sometimes Way
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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Minded Religion Small Vision
I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.
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Catholic Rocks Stars
The less you know, the more you believe.
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Believe Favourite Humility
Where you live in the world should not determine whether you live in the world.
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Inspirational Life Positive
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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Beautiful Being Respect Yourself
Essentially, I’m a very real person; good and bad. And the public image is one of being very good,
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Kings Real Thinking
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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Believe Heart Views
You don’t become an ‘artist’ unless you’ve got something missing somewhere. Blaise Pascal called it a God-shaped hole.
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Cutting Loss Song
The great music for so many artists – the Beatles, the Rolling Stones – was always at the moment when they were closest to pop. It would be easy for U2 to go off and have a concept album, but I want us to stay in the pop fray.
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Albums Artist Rolling
The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.
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Coal Cost Oil
Let’s not bequeath the pop charts to just children.
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Bequeath Children Pops
God is in the cries heard under the rubble of war. God is in the debris of wasted opportunity and lives, and God is with us if we are with them.
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God Opportunity Wasted
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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Audience Hear Public Opinion
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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Country Fire Flames Needs
U2 was involved in Live Aid, and I ended up going to Ethiopia and working there for some time with my wife, Ali.
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Aids Ethiopia Wife
I think carrying moral baggage is very dangerous for an artist. If you have a duty, it’s to be true and not cover up the cracks.
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Artist Cracks Thinking
In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.
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Rocks Stars Views
The great moments of rock ‘n’ roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.
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Ghetto Rocks Self
The French are so into themselves that they don’t even notice you.
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Country Notice Themselves
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.
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Commodities Oil School Two
The only person who ever called me Paul was my father, so I always associate it with doing something wrong, you know. So, you know, occasionally, people will come up to me on the street and try to, you know, ingratiate themselves and call me Paul. I don’t like it, actually.
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Father People Something Trying Wrong
U2 is sort of song writing by accident really. We don’t really know what we’re doing and when we do, it doesn’t seem to help.
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Helping Song Writing
For all that “I was lost, I am found,” it is probably more accurate to say, “I was really lost, I’m a little less so at the moment.
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Littles Lost Moments

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