You don’t become an ‘artist’ unless you’ve got something missing somewhere. Blaise Pascal called it a God-shaped hole.
BONOBecause you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.
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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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It’s stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
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Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.
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Religion can be the enemy of God. It’s often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.
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Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don’t know what to say, and I think music can be more eloquent than words.
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The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off – we do not have to stand for this.
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We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.
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I wouldn’t run for President. I wouldn’t want to move to a smaller house.
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Jesus, Jesus help me. I’m alone in this world.
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Essentially, I’m a very real person; good and bad. And the public image is one of being very good,
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It’s quite widespread in rock culture, that mythology of the shooting star. I’d rather be the North star. As bob (Dylan) says, you can navigate by it.
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My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.
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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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I do see the good in people, but I also see the bad — I see it in myself. I know what I’m capable of. Good and bad. It’s very imnportant that we make that clear. Just because I often find a way around the darkness doesn’t mean tjat I don’t know it’s there. (Bono)
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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.
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