Religion can be the enemy of God. It’s often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.
BONOIf 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.
More Bono Quotes
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Jesus, Jesus help me. I’m alone in this world.
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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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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 have been working for Africans since I was 18, when I got involved with the Nelson Mandela concerts. I got involved with debt cancellation because Desmond Tutu demanded that the world respond to that situation.
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It’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.
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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’ve learned to speak in a lot of tongues, and I can live with the bellicose language of some fervent, fire-breathing Christians, sure.
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Christians are hard to tolerate; I don’t know how Jesus does it
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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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I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.
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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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Essentially, 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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I wouldn’t run for President. I wouldn’t want to move to a smaller house.
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Laughter is eternity if joy is real.
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