Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.
BONOEssentially, I’m a very real person; good and bad. And the public image is one of being very good,
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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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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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It’s still very difficult for me to rely. Your weakness, the blessing of your weakness is it forces you into friendships. The things that you lack, you look for in others.
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My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.
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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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In general people put too much faith in the rich, the famous, the politicians, and not enough faith in themselves.
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The less you know, the more you believe.
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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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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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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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I truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things: the war on terror, the digital revolution, and what we did – or did not do – to put the fire out in Africa. History, like God, is watching what we do.
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The great moments of rock ‘n’ roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.
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If September 11th has taught us anything, it’s certainly that the world has never been so interdependent. It is impossible now to be an island of prosperity in a sea of despair.
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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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You’ve got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.
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