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Religion can be the enemy of God. It’s often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.

Bono

Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
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Book Giving Persons
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.
BONO

Minded Religion Small Vision
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.
BONO

Inspire Music Songs
To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
BONO

Beautiful Being Respect Yourself
U2 is an original species… there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
BONO

Emotional Feelings Originality
You’ve got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.
BONO

Aids Victim Watches
Sadly, I do my homework. I’ve a soft spot for the boring minutiae. I read the Charter of the United Nations before meeting with Kofi Annan.
BONO

Defense Homework World
Music can change the world because it can change people.
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Change Inspirational Music
What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.
BONO

Birthday Dream Record See Song
We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.
BONO

Answer Perspective Questions Thoughtful
Where you live in the world should not determine whether you live in the world.
BONO

Inspirational Life Positive
You don’t become an ‘artist’ unless you’ve got something missing somewhere. Blaise Pascal called it a God-shaped hole.
BONO

Cutting Loss Song
It’s stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
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Ambition Chivalry Growth
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.
BONO

Albums Artist Rolling
Sometimes religion gets in the way of God.
BONO

God Sometimes Way
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it’s to have any meaning in this world – and stop being its apologist.
BONO

Brother Distance Unity

Religion can be the enemy of God. It’s often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.

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