I’m as skeptical as anyone would be about celebrities and causes – and I will dare to say to you that I don’t think of myself as a celebrity per se.
BONOIt’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.
More Bono Quotes
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It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw.
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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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Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world’s poorest people.
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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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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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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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Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.
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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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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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In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.
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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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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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Let’s not bequeath the pop charts to just children.
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But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was more one of worship and awe, a vertical relationship.
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Sometimes religion gets in the way of God.
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