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.
BONOI will admit that we are attracted to issues that unify people rather than divide them.
More Bono Quotes
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I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.
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You don’t become an ‘artist’ unless you’ve got something missing somewhere. Blaise Pascal called it a God-shaped hole.
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Jesus, Jesus help me. I’m alone in this world.
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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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It’s still very difficult for me to rely. Your weakness, the blessing of your weakness is it forces you into friendships. The things that you lack, you look for in others.
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Facts, like people, want to be free – and when they’re free, liberty is usually around the corner.
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The great music for so many artists – the Beatles, the Rolling Stones – was always at the moment when they were closest to pop. It would be easy for U2 to go off and have a concept album, but I want us to stay in the pop fray.
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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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You can never completely fill that hole-you can try with songs,family,faith and by living a full life…but when things are silent, you can still hear the hissing of what’s missing.
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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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In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.
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My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.
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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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Rock stars are good at making noise.
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Laughter is eternity if joy is real.
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