The right to be irresponsible and stupid is something I hold very dear. And luckily it is something I do well.
BONOFor 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.
More Bono Quotes
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It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw.
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To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
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But more than anything else, for the British folks Irish people were all terrorists. So when we went to Britain, it was always a lot of resistance to U2. And that’s why we came to America.
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The less you know, the more you believe.
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Technology is huge; I wanted to learn about it. People might say that’s odd, but I think it’s odd if artists aren’t interested in the world around them. I’m always chasing that.
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Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world’s poorest people.
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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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In general people put too much faith in the rich, the famous, the politicians, and not enough faith in themselves.
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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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Every artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill for inspiration/and then sing about the grief.
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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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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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If I don’t understand it, it must be art.
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In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows But my sorrows they learned to swim
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Let’s not bequeath the pop charts to just children.
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