Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don’t know what to say, and I think music can be more eloquent than words.
BONOMarriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.
More Bono Quotes
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Even though I’m a believer, I still find it really hard to be around other believers. They make me nervous, they make me twitch. I sorta watch my back.
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Convictions, in the end, they can be dangerous, but a world without them is just kind of an awful kind of gray, amorphous mass.
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God is so big. It’s a gigantic concept in God.
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When those people get up at the Grammys and say, “I thank God”, I always imagine God going, “Oh, don’t, please don’t thank me for that one. Please, oh, that’s an awful one! Don’t thank me for that – that’s a piece of crap !”
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U2 was involved in Live Aid, and I ended up going to Ethiopia and working there for some time with my wife, Ali.
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Sometimes religion gets in the way of God.
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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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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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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 will admit that we are attracted to issues that unify people rather than divide them.
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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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In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.
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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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Christians are hard to tolerate; I don’t know how Jesus does it
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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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