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In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows But my sorrows they learned to swim

Bono

The only person who ever called me Paul was my father, so I always associate it with doing something wrong, you know. So, you know, occasionally, people will come up to me on the street and try to, you know, ingratiate themselves and call me Paul. I don’t like it, actually.
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Father People Something Trying Wrong
My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.
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Inspirational Simple Understanding
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 Positive Song
It’s annoying, but justice and equality are mates. Aren’t they? Justice always wants to hang out with equality. And equality is a real pain.
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Justice Pain Real
For 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.
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Littles Lost Moments
Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits; cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich by planting or digging or drilling for wealth.
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Country Digging Thinking
Rock stars are good at making noise.
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Noise Rocks Stars
I truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things: the war on terror, the digital revolution, and what we did – or did not do – to put the fire out in Africa. History, like God, is watching what we do.
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Believe Book War
Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.
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Different Littles People
Christians are hard to tolerate; I don’t know how Jesus does it
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Christian Jesus Tolerate
It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw.
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Abandon Exposing Impossible Yourself
The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.
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Coal Cost Oil
Sometimes religion gets in the way of God.
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God Sometimes Way
I’m as skeptical as anyone would be about celebrities and causes – and I will dare to say to you that I don’t think of myself as a celebrity per se.
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Causes Celebrities Thinking
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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Country People Resistance
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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Eye Mean Ocean
In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.
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Rocks Stars Views
Poverty breeds despair. We know this. Despair breeds violence. We know this. In turbulent times, isn’t it cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than to defend yourself against them later?
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Despair Enemy Poverty
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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Dear Stupid Wells
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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Aids Ethiopia Wife
In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows But my sorrows they learned to swim
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Dream Sorrow Swim
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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Able Beautiful Self
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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Birthday Dream Record See Song
I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.
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Catholic Rocks Stars
In general people put too much faith in the rich, the famous, the politicians, and not enough faith in themselves.
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General Much People Rich
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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Blessing Looks Weakness
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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Inspire Music Songs

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