I will admit that we are attracted to issues that unify people rather than divide them.
BONOEssentially, I’m a very real person; good and bad. And the public image is one of being very good,
More Bono Quotes
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Facts, like people, want to be free – and when they’re free, liberty is usually around the corner.
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Sometimes religion gets in the way of God.
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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.
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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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It’s stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
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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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You can never completely fill that hole-you can try with songs,family,faith and by living a full life…but when things are silent, you can still hear the hissing of what’s missing.
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The idea that there is one kind of African is of course ridiculous. Sometimes African entrepreneurs want to kill you because you are saying public health is the priority, not roads.
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Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits; cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich by planting or digging or drilling for wealth.
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The great music for so many artists – the Beatles, the Rolling Stones – was always at the moment when they were closest to pop. It would be easy for U2 to go off and have a concept album, but I want us to stay in the pop fray.
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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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Let’s not bequeath the pop charts to just children.
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God is so big. It’s a gigantic concept in God.
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As a musician and a songwriter it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place. Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.
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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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