The right to be irresponsible and stupid is something I hold very dear. And luckily it is something I do well.
BONOEssentially, I’m a very real person; good and bad. And the public image is one of being very good,
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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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The great gifts of models are not that they’re more beautiful than the next person, it’s that they’re able to be photographed and not be self-conscious.
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Christians are hard to tolerate; I don’t know how Jesus does it
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It’s so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.
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It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw.
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You see, idealism detached from action is just a dream. But idealism allied with pragmatism, with rolling up your sleeves and making the world bend a bit, is very exciting. It’s very real. It’s very strong.
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Let’s not bequeath the pop charts to just children.
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The less you know, the more you believe.
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I get to hear the really good or the really bad things in the press, but I don’t read it. I can afford to say that because public opinion does not drive U2’s audience.
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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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Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.
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Laughter is eternity if joy is real.
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Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world’s poorest people.
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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.
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What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.
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