To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
BONOThe right to be irresponsible and stupid is something I hold very dear. And luckily it is something I do well.
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It’s stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
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Music can change the world because it can change people.
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Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.
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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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Rock stars are good at making noise.
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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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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.
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Christians are hard to tolerate; I don’t know how Jesus does it
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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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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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The only person who ever called me Paul was my father, so I always associate it with doing something wrong, you know. So, you know, occasionally, people will come up to me on the street and try to, you know, ingratiate themselves and call me Paul. I don’t like it, actually.
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In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows But my sorrows they learned to swim
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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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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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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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