Where you live in the world should not determine whether you live in the world.
BONOIt’s so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.
More Bono Quotes
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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 less you know, the more you believe.
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In general people put too much faith in the rich, the famous, the politicians, and not enough faith in themselves.
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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’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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Essentially, I’m a very real person; good and bad. And the public image is one of being very good,
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If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It’s a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting.
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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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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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The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.
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Laughter is eternity if joy is real.
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It’s much easier to be successful than it is to be relevant. The tricks won’t keep you relevant. Tricks might keep you popular for a while, but in all honesty,
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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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Let’s not bequeath the pop charts to just children.
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Every artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill for inspiration/and then sing about the grief.
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What I like about pop music, and why I’m still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes our folk music.
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Jesus, Jesus help me. I’m alone in this world.
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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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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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God is in the cries heard under the rubble of war. God is in the debris of wasted opportunity and lives, and God is with us if we are with them.
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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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The idea that there is one kind of African is of course ridiculous. Sometimes African entrepreneurs want to kill you because you are saying public health is the priority, not roads.
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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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Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.
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It’s stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
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Christians are hard to tolerate; I don’t know how Jesus does it
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