It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw.
BONOI’m a musician. I write songs. I just hope when the day is done I’ve been able to tear a little corner off of the darkness.
More Bono Quotes
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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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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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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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Celebrity is ridiculous and silly and it’s mad that people like me are listened to – you know, rap stars and movie stars.
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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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Music can change the world because it can change people.
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When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals.
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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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In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows But my sorrows they learned to swim
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God is so big. It’s a gigantic concept in God.
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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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I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.
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Christians are hard to tolerate; I don’t know how Jesus does it
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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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Where you live in the world should not determine whether you live in the world.
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