U2 is an original species… there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
BONOCelebrity is ridiculous and silly and it’s mad that people like me are listened to – you know, rap stars and movie stars.
More Bono Quotes
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Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world’s poorest people.
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U2 is sort of song writing by accident really. We don’t really know what we’re doing and when we do, it doesn’t seem to help.
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Where you live in the world should not determine whether you live in the world.
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My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.
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In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows But my sorrows they learned to swim
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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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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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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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If I don’t understand it, it must be art.
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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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Poverty breeds despair. We know this. Despair breeds violence. We know this. In turbulent times, isn’t it cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than to defend yourself against them later?
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I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.
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I will admit that we are attracted to issues that unify people rather than divide them.
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Let’s not bequeath the pop charts to just children.
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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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