It’s annoying, but justice and equality are mates. Aren’t they? Justice always wants to hang out with equality. And equality is a real pain.
BONOI get to hear the really good or the really bad things in the press, but I don’t read it. I can afford to say that because public opinion does not drive U2’s audience.
More Bono Quotes
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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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There was a moment when Prince did rock & roll with a sponge-y seductive sound. I think that’s what was in our head for ‘Get On Your Boots.’ But actually, the song is much more punk rock.
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Christians are hard to tolerate; I don’t know how Jesus does it
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Where you live in the world should not determine whether you live in the world.
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Stop asking God to bless what you’re doing. Find out what God’s doing. It’s already blessed.
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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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I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.
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If I don’t understand it, it must be art.
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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 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’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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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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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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