In general people put too much faith in the rich, the famous, the politicians, and not enough faith in themselves.
BONOI don’t know how U2 will stay relevant. I know we’ve got a future. I know we can fill stadiums. And yet with every record, I think, ‘Is this it? Are we still relevant?’
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You see, idealism detached from action is just a dream. But idealism allied with pragmatism, with rolling up your sleeves and making the world bend a bit, is very exciting. It’s very real. It’s very strong.
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I felt rich when I was 20 years old and my wife was paying my bills. Just being in a band, I’ve always felt blessed.
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If 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.
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Religion can be the enemy of God. It’s often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.
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U2 is an original species… there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
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The idea that there is one kind of African is of course ridiculous. Sometimes African entrepreneurs want to kill you because you are saying public health is the priority, not roads.
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The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off – we do not have to stand for this.
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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 wouldn’t run for President. I wouldn’t want to move to a smaller house.
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Sometimes religion gets in the way of God.
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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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Christians are hard to tolerate; I don’t know how Jesus does it
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Let’s not bequeath the pop charts to just children.
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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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Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.
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