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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More Bono Quotes
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The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.
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I 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.
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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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Music can change the world because it can change people.
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If I don’t understand it, it must be art.
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Everyone’s got one but some are blacker and wider than others. It’s a feeling of being abandoned,cut adrift in space and time-sometimes following the loss of a loved one.
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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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Jesus, Jesus help me. I’m alone in this world.
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I will admit that we are attracted to issues that unify people rather than divide them.
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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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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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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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U2 is sort of song writing by accident really. We don’t really know what we’re doing and when we do, it doesn’t seem to help.
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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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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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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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Rock stars are good at making noise.
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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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You see, idealism detached from action is just a dream. But idealism allied with pragmatism, with rolling up your sleeves and making the world bend a bit, is very exciting. It’s very real. It’s very strong.
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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.
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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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I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.
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My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.
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I don’t know how U2 will stay relevant. I know we’ve got a future. I know we can fill stadiums. And yet with every record, I think, ‘Is this it? Are we still relevant?’
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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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