Let’s not bequeath the pop charts to just children.
BONOMusic 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.
More Bono Quotes
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I’m as skeptical as anyone would be about celebrities and causes – and I will dare to say to you that I don’t think of myself as a celebrity per se.
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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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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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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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My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.
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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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It’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.
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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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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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Laughter is eternity if joy is real.
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The less you know, the more you believe.
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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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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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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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