Essentially, I’m a very real person; good and bad. And the public image is one of being very good,
BONOEveryone’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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Where you live in the world should not determine whether you live in the world.
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Celebrity is ridiculous and silly and it’s mad that people like me are listened to – you know, rap stars and movie stars.
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The right to be irresponsible and stupid is something I hold very dear. And luckily it is something I do well.
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U2 is an original species… there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
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U2 was involved in Live Aid, and I ended up going to Ethiopia and working there for some time with my wife, Ali.
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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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Jesus, Jesus help me. I’m alone in this world.
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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.
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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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It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw.
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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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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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You don’t become an ‘artist’ unless you’ve got something missing somewhere. Blaise Pascal called it a God-shaped hole.
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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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Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world’s poorest people.
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