Stop asking God to bless what you’re doing. Find out what God’s doing. It’s already blessed.
BONOThe 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.
More Bono Quotes
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Let’s not bequeath the pop charts to just children.
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The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we’re small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion.
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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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If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It’s a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting.
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It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw.
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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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In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.
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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.
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Music can change the world because it can change people.
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It’s much easier to be successful than it is to be relevant. The tricks won’t keep you relevant. Tricks might keep you popular for a while, but in all honesty,
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The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.
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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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Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it’s to have any meaning in this world – and stop being its apologist.
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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 right to be irresponsible and stupid is something I hold very dear. And luckily it is something I do well.
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