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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.

Bono

I’m a musician. I write songs. I just hope when the day is done I’ve been able to tear a little corner off of the darkness.
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Darkness Song Writing
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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Beautiful Being Respect Yourself
The idea that there is one kind of African is of course ridiculous. Sometimes African entrepreneurs want to kill you because you are saying public health is the priority, not roads.
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Believe Children Ideas
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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Abandoned Everyone Following Sometimes
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.
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Inspire Music Songs
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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Awful Kind World
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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Justice Pain Real
Stop asking God to bless what you’re doing. Find out what God’s doing. It’s already blessed.
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Asking Blessed God
It’s stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
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Ambition Chivalry Growth
It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw.
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Abandon Exposing Impossible Yourself
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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Blessing Looks Weakness
Jesus, Jesus help me. I’m alone in this world.
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Helping Jesus World
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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Aids Victim Watches
Religion can be the enemy of God. It’s often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.
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Building Enemy Happens
But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was more one of worship and awe, a vertical relationship.
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Hands Jesus Looks
Let’s not bequeath the pop charts to just children.
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Bequeath Children Pops
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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Ghetto Rocks Self
There’s no retirement for an artist,its your way of living so theres no end to it.
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Art Mastery Retirement
Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to put the fire out. We’re standing around with watering cans, when what we really need is the fire brigade.
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Country Fire Flames Needs
The French are so into themselves that they don’t even notice you.
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Country Notice Themselves
In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.
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Rocks Stars Views
Technology is huge; I wanted to learn about it. People might say that’s odd, but I think it’s odd if artists aren’t interested in the world around them. I’m always chasing that.
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Artist Technology Thinking
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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Honesty Successful Thinking
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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Record Relevant Stadiums
Sometimes religion gets in the way of God.
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God Sometimes Way
What I like about pop music, and why I’m still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes our folk music.
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Ends Folks Pops
In general people put too much faith in the rich, the famous, the politicians, and not enough faith in themselves.
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General Much People Rich

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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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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