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.
BONOTo be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
More Bono Quotes
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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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Every artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill for inspiration/and then sing about the grief.
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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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We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.
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If September 11th has taught us anything, it’s certainly that the world has never been so interdependent. It is impossible now to be an island of prosperity in a sea of despair.
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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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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.
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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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Poverty breeds despair. We know this. Despair breeds violence. We know this. In turbulent times, isn’t it cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than to defend yourself against them later?
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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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Facts, like people, want to be free – and when they’re free, liberty is usually around the corner.
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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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Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
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I wouldn’t run for President. I wouldn’t want to move to a smaller house.
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Laughter is eternity if joy is real.
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