For all that “I was lost, I am found,” it is probably more accurate to say, “I was really lost, I’m a little less so at the moment.
BONOSub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world’s poorest people.
More Bono Quotes
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I’ve learned to speak in a lot of tongues, and I can live with the bellicose language of some fervent, fire-breathing Christians, sure.
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My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.
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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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When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals.
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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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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 !”
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Where you live in the world should not determine whether you live in the world.
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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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The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.
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Stop asking God to bless what you’re doing. Find out what God’s doing. It’s already blessed.
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Every artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill for inspiration/and then sing about the grief.
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Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
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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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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 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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