Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
BONOI 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?’
More Bono Quotes
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Christians are hard to tolerate; I don’t know how Jesus does it
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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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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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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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In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows But my sorrows they learned to swim
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It’s stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
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The less you know, the more you believe.
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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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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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Even though I’m a believer, I still find it really hard to be around other believers. They make me nervous, they make me twitch. I sorta watch my back.
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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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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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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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Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world’s poorest people.
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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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