Religion can be the enemy of God. It’s often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.
BONOIt’s quite widespread in rock culture, that mythology of the shooting star. I’d rather be the North star. As bob (Dylan) says, you can navigate by it.
More Bono Quotes
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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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I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.
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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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Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
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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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Poverty breeds despair. We know this. Despair breeds violence. We know this. In turbulent times, isn’t it cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than to defend yourself against them later?
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I’ve learned to speak in a lot of tongues, and I can live with the bellicose language of some fervent, fire-breathing Christians, sure.
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In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows But my sorrows they learned to swim
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Jesus, Jesus help me. I’m alone in this world.
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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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The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.
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I have been working for Africans since I was 18, when I got involved with the Nelson Mandela concerts. I got involved with debt cancellation because Desmond Tutu demanded that the world respond to that situation.
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The less you know, the more you believe.
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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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In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.
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The French are so into themselves that they don’t even notice you.
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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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It’s so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.
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You’ve got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.
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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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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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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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Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.
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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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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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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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