I’m a musician. I write songs. I just hope when the day is done I’ve been able to tear a little corner off of the darkness.
BONOWhat I like about pop music, and why I’m still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes our folk music.
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Christians are hard to tolerate; I don’t know how Jesus does it
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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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It’s stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
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Let’s not bequeath the pop charts to just children.
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Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world’s poorest people.
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I do see the good in people, but I also see the bad — I see it in myself. I know what I’m capable of. Good and bad. It’s very imnportant that we make that clear. Just because I often find a way around the darkness doesn’t mean tjat I don’t know it’s there. (Bono)
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Stop asking God to bless what you’re doing. Find out what God’s doing. It’s already blessed.
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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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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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Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.
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Laughter is eternity if joy is real.
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Sadly, I do my homework. I’ve a soft spot for the boring minutiae. I read the Charter of the United Nations before meeting with Kofi Annan.
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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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Everyone’s got one but some are blacker and wider than others. It’s a feeling of being abandoned,cut adrift in space and time-sometimes following the loss of a loved one.
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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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