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.
BONOIn my dream, I was drowning my sorrows But my sorrows they learned to swim
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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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Rock stars are good at making noise.
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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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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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I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.
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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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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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Religion can be the enemy of God. It’s often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.
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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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It’s so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.
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Sometimes religion gets in the way of God.
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When those people get up at the Grammys and say, “I thank God”, I always imagine God going, “Oh, don’t, please don’t thank me for that one. Please, oh, that’s an awful one! Don’t thank me for that – that’s a piece of crap !”
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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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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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