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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

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.
BONO

Country People Resistance
In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows But my sorrows they learned to swim
BONO

Dream Sorrow Swim
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,
BONO

Honesty Successful Thinking
It’s stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
BONO

Ambition Chivalry Growth
What I like about pop music, and why I’m still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes our folk music.
BONO

Ends Folks Pops
The less you know, the more you believe.
BONO

Believe Favourite Humility
The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.
BONO

Coal Cost Oil
I wouldn’t run for President. I wouldn’t want to move to a smaller house.
BONO

House Moving Running
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
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.
BONO

Islands Sea Taught
If I don’t understand it, it must be art.
BONO

Art Must Understand
Celebrity is ridiculous and silly and it’s mad that people like me are listened to – you know, rap stars and movie stars.
BONO

Movie Ridiculous Silly Stars
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 !”
BONO

God People Pieces Thank
Every artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill for inspiration/and then sing about the grief.
BONO

Artist Grief Inspiration
Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.
BONO

Madness People Thinking
It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw.
BONO

Abandon Exposing Impossible Yourself

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

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