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.
BONOCelebrity is ridiculous and silly and it’s mad that people like me are listened to – you know, rap stars and movie stars.
More Bono Quotes
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Celebrity is ridiculous and silly and it’s mad that people like me are listened to – you know, rap stars and movie stars.
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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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I will admit that we are attracted to issues that unify people rather than divide them.
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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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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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Stop asking God to bless what you’re doing. Find out what God’s doing. It’s already blessed.
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Music can change the world because it can change people.
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The French are so into themselves that they don’t even notice you.
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Laughter is eternity if joy is real.
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I truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things: the war on terror, the digital revolution, and what we did – or did not do – to put the fire out in Africa. History, like God, is watching what we do.
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Where you live in the world should not determine whether you live in the world.
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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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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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The right to be irresponsible and stupid is something I hold very dear. And luckily it is something I do well.
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I wouldn’t run for President. I wouldn’t want to move to a smaller house.
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